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anxious (adjective):
1: characterized by extreme uneasiness of mind or brooding fear about some contingency : worried
2: characterized by, resulting from, or causing anxiety : worrying
3: ardently or earnestly wishing
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology : The fact that individual words can have multiple senses that are closely related in meaning is something which many people find objectionable about the English language. Anxious is an example of such a word, as people will use it to mean "worried," "eager (but with an undertone of worry)," and simply "eager." The word has been used in the sense of "eager" for a considerable length of time, with evidence going back at least to the 17th century although the 'worry' sense of the word was first used a century earlier.
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