General Article From jubbity to mubble fubbles, anxiety is well catered for in the historical dictionary

Topic Selected: Anxiety Book Volume: 422

The story of the word anxiety itself gives us a sense of the chokehold that worry can bring.

By Susie Dent

Confused tremor and fremescence; waxing into thunderpeals, of Fury stirred on by Fear.’ In his history of the French Revolution, Thomas Carlyle charted the build-up of frustration and anxiet...

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