Results

Definition of anxiousness : The quality of being anxious; great solicitude; anxiety.

Synonyms:

perturbation, agita, unease, disquietude, concern, care, apprehensiveness, angst, distress, apprehension, agitation, sweat, nervousness, nervosity, solicitude, anxiety, feelings, worry, concernment, fear, uneasiness, disquiet

Usage examples:

• And afterward, the Maid set the cloak about us for our sleep; and we then to kiss very sober, and I with anxiousness in the heart; but she with less, because she to have rest in me. - "The Night Land", William Hope Hodgson.
• No, it was a sort of anxiousness there was about him. - "Jack Haydon's Quest", John Finnemore.
• Mendelssohn's eyes had for an instant an inward look, then he quoted gently, " Bread with salt shalt thou eat, water by measure shalt thou drink, upon the hard earth shalt thou sleep, and a life of anxiousness shalt thou live, and labor in the study of the law!" - "Dreamers of the Ghetto", I. Zangwill.