overanxious
adjective
excessively anxious.
overanxiety
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a word derived from
overanxious.
Example Sentences
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The crime is compounded when the baby is put on a clock-ruled feeding schedule, a practice which is almost bound to produce overanxiety in parents and loss of appetite in children.
From Time Magazine Archive
That few casualties bite the dust is due chiefly to Guerrilla-Author Gordon's scattering fire, in her overanxiety to wipe out the entire enemy at one try.
From Time Magazine Archive
In his overanxiety to avoid monotony Author La Farge frequently varies the metre, not always with happy effect.
From Time Magazine Archive
The overconscientious syphilitic hardly realizes that the real horrors of the disease are usually the rewards of indifference rather than overanxiety.
From The Third Great Plague A Discussion of Syphilis for Everyday People by John H. (John Hinchman) Stokes
The only fear is lest in our overanxiety we give them a degree of independence for which they are unfit, thereby inviting reaction and disaster.
From Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Section 2 (of 2) of Supplemental Volume: Theodore Roosevelt, Supplement by Theodore Roosevelt
