anxiety
anxiety
(pl. -ies)
(pl. -ies)
- [mass noun]a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome
忧虑，焦虑，紧张，焦灼不安
he felt a surge of anxiety.
他心中涌起一阵忧虑。
[count noun]anxieties about the moral decline of today's youth.
对于当今青年道德蜕化的不安。
■[with infinitive]desire to do something, accompanied by apprehension
急于做某事的渴望
the housekeeper's eager anxiety to please.
管家急于讨好的渴望。
■(Psychiatry)a nervous disorder marked by excessive uneasiness and apprehension, typically with compulsive behaviour or panic attacks
(精神病学)焦虑症
- early 16th cent.: from French anxiété or Latin anxietas, from anxius (see anxious)
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