mindmap root((忧虑)) care implies oppression of the mind by responsibility and apprehension: a face worn by a host of ~s. concern implies a troubled state of mind and the interest, relation, affection, or responsibility that produces it: your happiness is my only ~. solicitude implies great concern or apprehension and connotes thoughtful or hovering attentiveness: behaved with typical maternal ~. anxiety stresses anguished uncertainty or fear of misfortune or failure: plagued by ~ and self-doubt. worry suggests prolonged fretting over matters that may or may not be real cause for anxiety: a businessman’s endless list of ~ies.