anxiousness

Other forms of anxiousness

plural

anxiousnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about anxiousness

What does anxiousness mean?

anxiousness means "(psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in anxiousness?

anxiousness has 4 syllables: an-xi-ou-sness. The stress falls on "xi".

What is another word for anxiousness?

Close synonyms include anxiety, disquiet. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anxiousness a common word?

anxiousness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.