Synonyms for solicitude
səˈlɪs ɪˌtud, -ˌtyudso·lic·i·tude

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1. solicitude

   Alarm, according to its derivation all'arme, "to arms," is an arousing to meet and repel danger, and may be quite consistent with true courage. Affright and fright express sudden fear which, for the time at least, overwhelms courage. The sentinel discovers with alarm the sudden approach of the enemy; the unarmed villagers view it with affright. Apprehension, disquietude, dread, misgiving, and solicitude are in anticipation of danger; consternation, dismay, and terror are overwhelming fear, generally in the actual presence of that which is terrible, though these words also may have an anticipative force. Timidity is a quality, habit, or condition, a readiness to be affected with fear. A person of great timidity is constantly liable to needless alarm and even terror. Compare FEAR.

   Synonyms:
   affright, alarm, apprehension, consternation, dismay, disquietude, dread, fear, fright, misgiving, panic, terror, timidity

   Antonyms:
   assurance, calmness, confidence, repose, security

   Preposition:
   Alarm was felt in the camp, among the soldiers, at the news.

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1. solicitude

   Synonyms:
   anxiety, concern, trouble, carefulness, uneasiness, care

   Antonyms:
   indifference, unconcern, carelessness, ease

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1. solicitude, solicitousnessnoun

   a feeling of excessive concern

   Synonyms:
   solicitousness

Matched Categories

1. • Concern

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1. solicitudenoun

   Synonyms:
   anxiety, care, carefulness, concern, trouble, perplexity

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1. Steven Vladeck:

   The Court historically has shown special procedural solicitude to the President in cases like this, and usually goes out of The Court way to ensure that the President is given his due without regard to the substantive claims he's raising, through that lens, a grant here would simply be the Supreme Court saying that it should be up to the Justices, and not the lower courts, to decide when an under what circumstances the President's personal information can properly be subject to a subpoena.

2. Mohamed El-Erian:

   It would be very unfortunate if, out of solicitude for the banking system, the Fed were to slow down its rate of interest-rate increase beyond what was appropriate given the credit contraction.

3. The Hitopadesa:

   A hundred long leagues is no distance for him who would quench the thirst of covetousness; but a contented mind has no solicitude for grasping wealth.

4. Elizabeth Bowen:

   Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.

5. John Updike:

   Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being.