Brooding vs Anxiety - What's the difference?
brooding | anxiety |
(of a bird) Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them.
Deeply or seriously thoughtful.
A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods.
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An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension and obsession or concern about some uncertain event.
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An uneasy or distressing desire (for something).
(pathology) A state of restlessness and agitation, often accompanied by a distressing sense of oppression or tightness in the stomach.
As nouns the difference between brooding and anxiety
is that brooding is a spell of brooding; the time when someone broods while anxiety is an unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension and obsession or concern about some uncertain event.As an adjective brooding
is (of a bird) broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them.As a verb brooding
is .brooding
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Adjective
(en adjective)- A brooding hen can be aggressive.
- You like T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"? You must be so brooding and deep .
Verb
(head)Noun
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anxiety
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(wikipedia anxiety)Noun
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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.
- I was anxious to get into the office before Henderson called from New York.
