Suspicion vs Anxiety - What's the difference?
suspicion | anxiety |
The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong.
The condition of being suspected.
Uncertainty, doubt.
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A trace, or slight indication.
* (Adolphus William Ward) (1837-1924)
The imagining of something without evidence.
(nonstandard, dialect) To suspect; to have suspicions.
* (Rudyard Kipling)
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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 suspicion and anxiety
is that suspicion is (act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong)The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong while anxiety is an unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension and obsession or concern about some uncertain event.As a verb suspicion
is to suspect; to have suspicions.suspicion
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Alternative forms
* suspition (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion .
- The features are mild but expressive, with just a suspicion of saturnine or sarcastic humor.
Derived terms
* suspicious * suspect * sneaking suspicionVerb
(en verb)- Mulvaney continued— "Whin I was full awake the palanquin was set down in a street, I suspicioned , for I cud hear people passin' an' talkin'. But I knew well I was far from home.
- "I've been suspicioning here was where they got their information right along," the sheriff commented, and slipped the handcuffs on the landlord.
References
* (EtymOnLine)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.