Dictionary Definition
solicitude n : a feeling of excessive concern
[syn: solicitousness]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
solicitude- The state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire good; anxiety.
- a feeling of excessive concern.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
TLC,
accommodatingness,
affability, agitation, agreeableness, alarm, all-overs, amenity, angst, anticipation, anxiety, anxiety hysteria,
anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat,
anxiousness,
apprehension,
apprehensiveness,
attention, attentiveness, calculation, cankerworm of
care, canniness,
care, careful
consideration, carefulness, caution, cautiousness, circumspection, circumspectness,
civility, comity, complaisance, compunction, concern, concernment, considerateness,
consideration,
courteousness,
courtesy, deference, deliberate stages,
deliberateness,
deliberation,
delicacy, discretion, disquiet, disquietude, distress, disturbance, dread, fear, fearfulness, foreboding, forebodingness, forethought, gingerliness, gracefulness, graciousness, guardedness, hedge, hedging, heed, heedfulness, helpfulness, hesitation, indulgence, inquietude, judiciousness, leniency, loving care, malaise, mindfulness, misgiving, nervous strain,
nervous tension, nervousness, obligingness, overanxiety, pawkiness, perturbation, pins and
needles, politeness,
preparedness, prior
consultation, prudence,
prudentialness,
pucker, qualm, regard, regardfulness, respect, respectfulness, safeness, safety first,
scruple, slowness to
act, solicitousness, stew, strain, suspense, tact, tactfulness, tender loving
care, tension, tentativeness, thoroughness, thought, thoughtfulness, toleration, trouble, uncommunicativeness,
unease, uneasiness, unprecipitateness,
unquietness,
upset, urbanity, vexation, watchfulness, worry, zeal