anxieties
- 1Plural of anxiety.
The therapist helped her name the anxieties that had been keeping her awake.
Financial anxieties weighed on the whole family throughout the recession.
Note
The plural turns a mood into a list. Anxiety as a general state of unease is usually uncountable, but every meaning of the noun can also be counted, and the plural picks out separate, nameable worries: financial anxieties, the anxieties of parenthood. It is at home in clinical, literary and sociological writing, where the point is to tell one source of unease from another.
anxieties is a form of anxiety
anxiety, noun: An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, and apprehension, with worry about some uncertain event. Full entry
- Forms
- anxietyanxieties plural
- Spelling
- anxiety → anxieties: change y to i, add -es
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