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{
"term": "anxiety",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "the state of feeling nervous or worried that something bad is going to happen",
"sensetop": "anxiety (about/over something)",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "**acute/intense/deep anxiety**"
},
{
"text": "Some hospital patients experience high levels of anxiety."
},
{
"text": "Waiting for exam results is a time of great anxiety."
},
{
"text": "A lot of anxiety surrounds the issue of human cloning."
},
{
"text": "His face betrayed his anxiety."
},
{
"text": "The aim is to reduce anxiety and help the patients relax."
},
{
"text": "The more reports I study the more my anxiety grows."
},
{
"text": "We seem to live in a state of free-floating anxiety that can attach itself to anything."
},
{
"text": "anxiety at the deterioration of relations between the powers"
},
{
"text": "I keep having this anxiety dream where I've forgotten to do something important."
}
],
"topics": ["Feelings"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["acute", "considerable", "deep"],
"… of anxiety": ["level"],
"verb + anxiety": ["arouse", "bring", "cause"],
"anxiety + verb": ["grow", "arise", "arise from something"],
"anxiety + noun": ["attack", "disorder", "dream"],
"preposition": ["anxiety about", "anxiety at", "anxiety for"],
"phrases": ["anxiety and depression", "fear and anxiety"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a mental illness that causes somebody to worry so much that it has a very negative effect on their daily life",
"labels": "(psychology)",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Some people are feeling the pressure and suffering from anxiety and depression."
},
{
"text": "patients with an anxiety disorder"
}
],
"topics": ["Mental health"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a worry or fear about something",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "If you're worried about your health, share your anxieties with your doctor."
},
{
"text": "A few anxieties surfaced during the meeting."
},
{
"text": "There are anxieties over the effects of unemployment."
},
{
"text": "They were encouraged to express their fears and anxieties."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["acute", "considerable", "deep"],
"… of anxiety": ["level"],
"verb + anxiety": ["arouse", "bring", "cause"],
"anxiety + verb": ["grow", "arise", "arise from something"],
"anxiety + noun": ["attack", "disorder", "dream"],
"preposition": ["anxiety about", "anxiety at", "anxiety for"],
"phrases": ["anxiety and depression", "fear and anxiety"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "a strong feeling of wanting to do something or of wanting something to happen",
"sensetop": "anxiety to do somethinganxiety for something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the candidate’s anxiety to win the vote",
"contextForm": "anxiety to do something"
},
{
"text": "A couple of photographers fell over themselves in their anxiety to get a shot of her."
},
{
"text": "the people’s anxiety for the war to end",
"contextForm": "anxiety for something"
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/æŋˈzaɪəti/",
"audio": "an/anxiety/anxiety__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/æŋˈzaɪəti/",
"audio": "an/anxiety/anxiety__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "early 16th cent.: from French anxiété or Latin anxietas, from anxius, from angere ‘to choke’."
}