From jubbity to mubble fubbles, anxiety is well catered for in the historical dictionary
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The story of the word anxiety itself gives us a sense of the chokehold that worry can bring.
By Susie Dent
Confused tremor and fremescence; waxing into thunderpeals, of Fury stirred on by Fear.’ In his history of the French Revolution, Thomas Carlyle charted the build-up of frustration and anxiety that was to eventually erupt inexorably. He was the first to give us the term ‘fremescence’, a description of ‘an incipient roaring’. In other words, this was a growing sense of dissatisfaction that...
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