Crossword clues for anxieties
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anxiety \Anx*i"e*ty\, n.; pl. Anxieties. [L. anxietas, fr. anxius: cf. F. anxi['e]t['e]. See Anxious.]
Concern or solicitude respecting some thing or event, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.
Eager desire.
--J. D. Forbes-
(Med.) A state of restlessness and agitation, often with general indisposition and a distressing sense of oppression at the epigastrium.
--Dunglison.Syn: Care; solicitude; foreboding; uneasiness; perplexity; disquietude; disquiet; trouble; apprehension; restlessness. See Care.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of anxiety English)
Usage examples of "anxieties".
Overnight reflections had not entirely dispersed his anxieties but his little chat with Hurrhee could be the most productive.
Several anxieties flicked through his mind then: he was black with rock dust--would he have time to wash before donning the white tunic of candidacy?
Kai was torn between the social obligations of raising his spirits to the level of the others and the need to worry privately about his new anxieties.
Her own anxieties and concerns were addressed and discussed thoroughly.
She dared not look at him, suppressing her own roiling anxieties, inexplicably convinced that he, or his coelura spun gown, would sense her increasing fear.
Despite her anxieties, or perhaps because she was enveloped in coelura, Caissa slept.
That had to be a myth, and yet she began to experience the anxieties she had suffered when she was marooned here.
Every day brought new anxieties and fears that just proved how quickly a space-going race can forget how it once adapted.
She was a nice womanly person: her surface thoughts revolving around her husband, her daughter: all her anxieties were needless guilts over minor details.
His voice echoed from Tiria's mind to Dorotea and lifted the anxieties of every Talent in the room.
Lance, it is good to see your face, no longer contorted with the anxieties with which that appalling Barchenka burdened you.
She could concentrate entirely on Jeff, then, free of the anxieties of others.
Most of the passengers were awed by the spectacle, babbling about their expectations of the voyage, the hardships they had endured to save for the experience, their hopes for their destinations, anxieties about home-bound relatives.
She was appalled at that treachery, and obsessed by the horrifying guilt that she, herself, her anxieties and idiotic presentiments, had condemned Lars on the one count which had not been dismissed by the Court.
Now to his other anxieties was added the fact that he longed to stay here, safe from intrusion, safe from having to decide everything for everyone, and yet, he had to leave soon in case he was needed.