worriment

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From worry +‎ -ment.

Noun

worriment (countable and uncountable, plural worriments)

  1. The act of worrying; anxiety.
    • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 46:
      Maybe he feared that himself, John Guthrie, his rage was his worriment with the night […].
  2. A worrying situation or thing.
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