worriment

wor·ri·ment  (wûr-mnt, wr-)

n.

1. The act or an instance of worrying.

2. A source of anxiety; a worry.

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worriment [ˈwʌrɪmənt]

n

Informal chiefly US and Canadian anxiety or the trouble that causes it; worry

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

worriment - a difficulty that causes anxiety     troublesomeness, inconvenience difficultness, difficulty - the quality of being difficult; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb" cumbersomeness, unwieldiness, awkwardness - trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape; "the movers cursed the unwieldiness of the big piano" flea bite - a very minor inconvenience fly in the ointment - an inconvenience that detracts from the usefulness of something unwieldiness - the quality of being difficult to direct or control by reason of complexity; "avoiding the unwieldiness of formal legal processes"; "the onset of unwieldiness and bureaucracy in large organizations"

Translations

worriment

n (esp US inf)

(= vexation) → Plage f, → Quälerei f

(= anxiety) → Angst f, → Sorge f