Gloom vs Anxiety - What's the difference?
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Darkness, dimness or obscurity.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
A melancholy, depressing or despondent atmosphere.
Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
* Burke
A drying oven used in gunpowder manufacture.
To be dark or gloomy.
* Goldsmith
* 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 189:
to look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.
* D. H. Lawrence
To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
* Walpole
* Tennyson
To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
* Tennyson
* Goldsmith
To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
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 gloom and anxiety
is that gloom is darkness, dimness or obscurity while anxiety is an unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension and obsession or concern about some uncertain event.As a verb gloom
is to be dark or gloomy.gloom
English
Noun
(-)- the gloom of a forest, or of midnight
- Here was a surprise, and a sad one for me, for I perceived that I had slept away a day, and that the sun was setting for another night. And yet it mattered little, for night or daytime there was no light to help me in this horrible place; and though my eyes had grown accustomed to the gloom , I could make out nothing to show me where to work.
- A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits.
Derived terms
* doom and gloom * gloomily * (l) (humorous) * gloomyVerb
(en verb)- The black gibbet glooms beside the way.
- Around all the dark forest gloomed .
- Ciss was a big, dark-complexioned, pug-faced young woman who seemed to be glooming about something.
- A bow window gloomed with limes.
- A black yew gloomed the stagnant air.
- Such a mood as that which lately gloomed your fancy.
- What sorrows gloomed that parting day.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "gloom")anxiety
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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.