free-floating anxiety
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Outfitted by costume designer Jane Greenwood in a mother-of-the-bride dress so redolent of springtime it might have to be mulched, Parker bounces around the room, filling it with free-floating anxiety.
From Washington Post • Mar. 29, 2022
This might sound like a great deal of homework for a fear you’re hoping will just go away, but I believe specificity and planning make great antidotes to free-floating anxiety.
From Slate • Jan. 28, 2021
Some of her jokes are brutal, some are outrageous, but she has a particular gift for frothing neurosis – loneliness, low self-worth, free-floating anxiety – into extravagant laughs.
From The Guardian • Sep. 18, 2019
That is a free-floating anxiety that people try to channel into owning guns, or whatever.
From Salon • Jan. 3, 2016
“There was always the free-floating anxiety that things could get out of hand.”
From The New Yorker • May 4, 2015
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