anxiety
/æŋˈzaɪəti/
a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease
anxiety in a sentence
“Anxiety about the exam kept her awake at night.”
Origin of anxiety
Latin anxietas anguish, distress from anxius troubled, uneasy from angere to choke, squeeze
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