{
    "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’."
}