Disquiet vs. Anxiety — What's the Difference?

To deprive of peace or rest; trouble.

Anxiety is an emotion characterized by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil, often accompanied by nervous behavior such as pacing back and forth, somatic complaints, and rumination. It includes subjectively unpleasant feelings of dread over anticipated events.Anxiety is a feeling of uneasiness and worry, usually generalized and unfocused as an overreaction to a situation that is only subjectively seen as menacing.

Absence of peace or rest; anxiety.

A state of uneasiness and apprehension, as about future uncertainties.

Uneasy; restless.

A cause of anxiety

Lack of quiet; absence of tranquility in body or mind

(Psychology) A state of apprehension, uncertainty, and fear focused on the anticipation of a realistic or fantasized threatening event or situation, often impairing physical and psychological functioning.

Deprived of quiet; impatient, restless, uneasy.

Eager, often agitated desire

To make (someone or something) worried or anxious.

An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension and obsession or concern about some uncertain event.

Deprived of quiet; impatient; restless; uneasy.

An uneasy or distressing desire (for something).

Want of quiet; want of tranquility in body or mind; uneasiness; restlessness; disturbance; anxiety.

(pathology) A state of restlessness and agitation, often accompanied by a distressing sense of oppression or tightness in the stomach.

To render unquiet; to deprive of peace, rest, or tranquility; to make uneasy or restless; to disturb.

Concern or solicitude respecting some thing or event, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.

A feeling of mild anxiety about possible developments

Eager desire.

The trait of seeming ill at ease

A state of restlessness and agitation, often with general indisposition and a distressing sense of oppression at the epigastrium.

Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed;

A relatively permanent state of anxiety occurring in a variety of mental disorders

A vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune