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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Anxiety \Anx*i"e*ty\, noun; pl. {Anxieties}. [L. anxietas, fr. anxius: cf. F. anxi['e]t['e]. See {Anxious}.]
1. Concern or solicitude respecting some thing or event, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.
2. Eager desire. --J. D. Forbes
3. (Med.) A state of restlessness and agitation, often with general indisposition and a distressing sense of oppression at the epigastrium. --Dunglison.
Syn: Care; solicitude; foreboding; uneasiness; perplexity; disquietude; disquiet; trouble; apprehension; restlessness. See {Care}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
anxiety
noun
1: a relatively permanent state of anxiety occurring in a variety of mental disorders [syn: {anxiousness}]
2: a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
159 Moby Thesaurus words for "anxiety": abstraction, abulia, ache, ado, alacrity, alienation, all-overs, angst, anguish, animation, annoyance, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, anxiousness, apathy, appetite, apprehension, apprehensiveness, avidity, avidness, besetment, boredom, bother, breathless impatience, can of worms, catatonic stupor, chafing, cheerful readiness, cheerlessness, cliff-hanging, compulsion, concern, concernment, dejection, depression, desire, detachment, disadvantage, discomfort, discomposure, discontent, dislike, displeasure, disquiet, disquietude, dissatisfaction, distress, doubt, dread, dullness, eagerness, elan, elation, emotionalism, emptiness, ennui, euphoria, evil, excitement, existential woe, expectant waiting, flatness, folie du doute, foreboding, forwardness, fretfulness, fretting, great ado, grimness, gust, gusto, haste, headache, hypochondria, hysteria, hysterics, impatience, impatientness, impetuousness, inconvenience, indifference, inquietude, insensibility, joylessness, keen desire, keenness, lack of pleasure, lather, lethargy, life, liveliness, longing, malaise, mania, matter, melancholia, mental distress, misery, misgiving, mistrust, nausea, nervousness, nongratification, nonsatisfaction, obsession, painfulness, panic, pathological indecisiveness, peck of troubles, pessimism, preoccupation, problem, promptness, psychalgia, psychomotor disturbance, qualm, qualmishness, quickness, readiness, restiveness, restlessness, savorlessness, sea of troubles, solicitude, spirit, spleen, staleness, stew, stupor, suffering, suspense, sweat, tastelessness, tediousness, tedium, tense readiness, thirst, tic, trouble, twitching, uncertainty, uncomfortableness, unease, uneasiness, unhappiness, unpatientness, unpleasure, unquietness, unresponsiveness, unsatisfaction, verve, vexation of spirit, vitality, vivacity, waiting, withdrawal, worry, zest, zestfulness
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