Usually means: Intense, excessive worry and fear.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. anxiety: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. anxiety: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. anxiety: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. anxiety: Collins English Dictionary
  5. anxiety: Vocabulary.com
  6. Anxiety, anxiety: Wordnik
  7. anxiety: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. anxiety: Wiktionary
  9. anxiety: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. anxiety: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. anxiety: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. anxiety: Dictionary.com
  13. anxiety: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. anxiety: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Anxiety (Julia Michaels song), Anxiety (Ladyhawke album), Anxiety (Munch), Anxiety (Smile Empty Soul album), Anxiety (disambiguation), Anxiety (mood), Anxiety (painting), Anxiety: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Anxiety: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. anxiety: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. anxiety: Rhymezone
  19. anxiety: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. anxiety: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. anxiety: Free Dictionary
  22. anxiety: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. anxiety: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. anxiety: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. anxiety: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. anxiety: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. anxiety: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. anxiety: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Anxiety: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Reactive Attachment Disorder (No longer online)
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Anxiety: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. anxiety: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  8. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  9. anxiety: Medical dictionary
  10. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  11. Anxiety: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Anxiety: Africa Glossary
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

(Note: See anxieties as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension and obsession or concern about some uncertain event.
noun:  An uneasy or distressing desire (for something). Endeavor (to please).
noun:  (pathology) A state of restlessness and agitation, often accompanied by a distressing sense of oppression or tightness in the stomach.

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