Noun

(anxieties)

An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension and obsession or concern about some uncertain event.

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But the other, because he's been immersed in arguments, gives the appearance of harbouring considerable anxiety and suspicion that he's ignorant of those matters he presents himself to others as an expert on.

An uneasy or distressing desire (for something).

I was anxious to get into the office before Henderson called from New York.

(pathology) A state of restlessness and agitation, often accompanied by a distressing sense of oppression or tightness in the stomach.

Noun

(obsolete) The state or quality of being a concern

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That in which one is concerned or interested; concern; affair; interest.

* I. Watts

Our everlasting concernments .

* Milton

To mix with thy concernments I desist.

importance; moment; consequence

* Jeremy Taylor

Let every action of concernment be begun with prayer.

concern; participation; interposition

* Clarendon

He married a daughter to the earl without any other approbation of her father or concernment in it, than suffering him and her come into his presence.

emotion of mind; solicitude; anxiety

* Dryden

While they are so eager to destroy the fame of others, their ambition is manifest in their concernment .