| NOUN | state | anxiety, anxiousness | (psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic |
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| feeling | anxiety | a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune |
| Sounds | aengzay'ahtiy | |
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| Rhymes | ability ... zloty: 638 rhymes with tiy... | |
| Meaning | (psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic. | |
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| Synonym | anxiousness | |
| Category | psychiatry, psychopathology, psychological medicine | The branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders |
| Narrower | castration anxiety | (psychoanalysis) anxiety resulting from real or imagined threats to your sexual functions |
| hypochondria, hypochondriasis | chronic and abnormal anxiety about imaginary symptoms and ailments | |
| overanxiety | excessive anxiety | |
| panic, scare | sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events | |
| Broader | psychological state, psychological condition, mental state, mental condition | (psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic |
| Spanish | ansiedad, zozobra | |
| Catalan | ansietat | |
| Adjectives | anxiolytic | anxiety relieving |
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