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Mark075 Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
unease vs uneasiness vs anxiety vs anxiousness
Please help me understand these words. Are they interchangeable or when should I use each of them?
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They all mean the same thing. You should stick to using "unease" or "anxiety" since they are much more common than the other two. Note, however, that the adjective anxious is sometimes used in the sense of "eager".
- They all mean the same thing.
- You should stick to using "unease" or "anxiety" since they are much more common than the other two.
- Note, however, that the adjective anxious is sometimes used in the sense of "eager".
- We're anxious to see the next Liverpool game.
- (anxious here means "eager" rather than "worried")
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They all mean the same thing. You should stick to using "unease" or "anxiety" since they are much more common than the other two. Note, however, that the adjective anxious is sometimes used in the sense of "eager".
We're anxious to see the next Liverpool game. (anxious here means "eager" rather than "worried")
We're anxious to see the next Liverpool game. (anxious here means "eager" rather than "worried")
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I recently felt a sense of UNEASE when I came across the word "anxiousness" in the newspaper. I was surprised to find that it (anxiousness) was actually a word, and that it appears to be used interchangeably with "anxiety." Regardless of that, I think "anxiety" is cleaner and preferable. The same for "unease" as opposed to the more cumbersome "uneasiness." There seems to be creeping into common
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