Anxiety and Sadness

Anxiety

Anxiety noun - An uneasy state of mind usually over the possibility of an anticipated misfortune or trouble.

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Sadness and anxiety are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sadness" instead a noun "Anxiety".

Nearby Word: anxious

Sadness noun - A state or spell of low spirits.

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Anxiety and sadness are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Anxiety" instead a noun "Sadness".

Nearby Words: sad, sadly

typical	typical anxiety	typical sadness
mild	mild anxiety	mild sadness
initial	initial anxiety	initial sadness
sheer	sheer anxiety	sheer sadness
Other adjectives: extreme, great, intense, horrible, general, less, hidden, underlying.

Sympathetic flaws like weakness (physical or emotional), self-defeating behavior, and proneness to emotions such as sadness and anxiety over ones like excitement and anger will not make the status on their own usually, but can be hugely beneficial in pushing a questionable character over the line.

Source: Analysis / The Woobie
The hawk is much freer from the problems of anxiety and sadness than humans in general or the human Tobias in particular (even physical pain doesn't bother the hawk as much as it would a human), and the hawk mind is perfectly capable of carrying on the normal functions for a hawk body.

Source: Heroic Safe Mode
Many of his works are about negative emotions and events like death, sexual anxiety, sickness, depression, melancholy, separation, jealousy, sadness,... Munch stated that this was a case of It Runs in the Family.

Source: Creator / Edvard Munch

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