What's the difference between anxiety and prowess?

Anxiety


Definition:

  • (n.) Concern or solicitude respecting some thing or event, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.
  • (n.) Eager desire.
  • (n.) A state of restlessness and agitation, often with general indisposition and a distressing sense of oppression at the epigastrium.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During and after the infusion of 5HTP, none of the patients showed an increase in anxiety or depressive symptoms, despite the presence of severe side effects.
  • (2) Several interpretations of the results are examined including the possibility that the effects of Valium use were short-lived rather than long-term and that Valium may have been taken in anticipation of anxiety rather than after its occurrence.
  • (3) However, it is easier for them to cope with anxiety because premedication pacifies the patients, whereas each of the dependent variables, such as apprehension, is influenced differently.
  • (4) Anxious mood and other symptoms of anxiety were commonly seen in patients with chronic low back pain.
  • (5) Lactate-induced anxiety and symptom attacks without panic were seen more often in the groups with panic attacks, but a full-blown panic attack was provoked in only four subjects, all belonging to the groups with a history of panic attacks.
  • (6) Higher anxiety, depression and psychiatric morbidity scores were reported by all patients at 6 and, to a lesser extent, at 12 weeks with greater differences in women.
  • (7) Anxiety conditions were measured by monitoring palmar skin resistance with a psychogalvanometer.
  • (8) Ex-patients of a dental fear clinic were found to have significantly reduced, yet still high, dental anxiety scores in comparison with the pre-intervention scores.
  • (9) However, a decision-sharing approach had a significant effect on reducing anxiety levels in third-grade children.
  • (10) Forty five elderly patients undergoing total hip replacements were assessed one day before and two days after surgery in order to explore the relationship between pre-operative anxiety and post-operative delirium.
  • (11) Seventy-three percent of 90 psychiatric inpatients had a coexisting anxiety disorder.
  • (12) Although the general guiding principle of pharmacotherapy for anxiety disorders--the lowest effective dose for the shortest possible time--remains, this rule should not interfere with the judicious use of medications as long as the benefits justify it.
  • (13) Ketazolam was found to be significantly better than placebo in alleviating anxiety and its concomitant symptomatology as measured by the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale, three Physician's Global Impressions, two Patient's Global Impressions, and three Target Symptoms.
  • (14) The following examinations could be proposed: in high risk cases determined before pregnancy, a chorionic villus sampling should be done between the 9th and 11th weeks of gestation; in low risk cases such as advanced maternal age, a first trimester chorionic villus sampling or a second trimester amniocentesis could be chosen; in the case of Down's syndrome, warning signs, for example ultrasonographic or biological parameters, a second trimester placental biopsy to relieve the parents' anxiety; in high risk cases such as ultrasonographic malformations, late placental biopsy or cordocentesis.
  • (15) Subjective measures of anxiety, frightening cognitions and body sensations were obtained across the phases.
  • (16) The focus will be on assessment of the gravid woman's anxiety levels and coping skills.
  • (17) Anxiety, depression, and somatization were greater in RAP mothers than well mothers.
  • (18) The writer Palesa Morudu told me that she sees, in the South African pride that "we did it", a troubling anxiety that we can't: "Why are we celebrating that we built stadiums on time?
  • (19) The encouraging pilot results warrant a controlled study of exposure for dysmorphophobic avoidance and anxiety.
  • (20) Study of the clinical characteristics of depressive state by hemisphere stroke with the use of symptom items of Zung scale and Hamilton scale showed that patients in depressive state with right hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items considered close to the essence of endogenous depression such as depressed mood, suicide, diurnal variation, loss of weight, and paranoid symptoms, while patients in depressive state with left hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items having a nuance of so-called neurotic depression such as psychic anxiety, hypochondriasis, and fatigue.

Prowess


Definition:

  • (a.) Distinguished bravery; valor; especially, military bravery and skill; gallantry; intrepidity; fearlessness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For a nation that has begun to flex its military muscles, its presence on another world perfectly demonstrates its national prowess.
  • (2) Moyes is the referee, which is just as well as the fixture generally has a bit of needle to it: the veterans needing to continually reassert their prowess over the younger generation.
  • (3) Chelsea have not been defensively tight this term, their frailties masked by attacking prowess at the other end, but the sight of Draxler gliding through them at will was disturbing.
  • (4) Indeed, there is a rising anxiety amongst US public and private sector mandarins surrounding Iran’s apparent digital prowess, as evinced by research the Guardian was briefed on ahead of its September release.
  • (5) Especially after the levels of sexual activity that are said to have taken place during the last set of Olympic Games, which showed it's possible to display athletic prowess while breaking Grindr .
  • (6) Meanwhile, the symbols of their adopted country’s world-beating prowess, from football to cars, look somewhat tarnished.
  • (7) That was when Orlando finally imposed their superior attacking prowess and simply overwhelmed the visitors with three goals in the space of eight minutes, with two more from Dwyer and one from local product Dennis Chin.
  • (8) The BBC director general, Tony Hall , said the controversial boxer had been put on the list for his “sporting prowess” and that he trusted the public to judge who should win the contest.
  • (9) Whether witnessed close-up, as in Mitchell's case, or from afar, in the exaltation of Sir Ranulph as he escorts his wig to the Antarctic, a narrow model of male prowess is actively damaging huge numbers of non-dominant, powerless or jobless men, who struggle, the charity explains, when they are unable to meet expectations.
  • (10) The potential impact on future patient draw, professional prowess, and income, which may result from a continuation of this wide gap, is also discussed.
  • (11) Fresh to office, and gung-ho to demonstrate their prowess at cutting, a lot of the Tory ministers were naive or reckless about the impact of cuts.
  • (12) Zlatan Ibrahimovic: ‘Mourinho is cool – the older coaches get, the cooler they get’ Read more The clubs have agreed a fee of around £25m plus add-ons for Bailly, who can play across the back four and looks to have the physical prowess to prosper in the Premier League.
  • (13) The duo are famed for their deal-making prowess, founded on a strategy of driving profits by slashing costs.
  • (14) Chelsea have won seven matches during that sequence and once we had waded through all the varying subplots and controversies the bottom line is the Premier League leaders have re-established a five-point advantage ahead of Manchester City – and gone nine clear of Arsenal – courtesy of Eden Hazard’s expertly taken penalty and the latest demonstration of Diego Costa’s penalty-box prowess.
  • (15) Here was the team that comes at opponents in a blur of red and terrorises them with their attacking prowess.
  • (16) What special extra element can the RAF add, other than trying to demonstrate Britain’s military prowess Even if the forces of Isis are attacked even more intensively from the air, the military consensus appears to be that they cannot be defeated without ground troops.
  • (17) Santos had bridled at suggestions before the game that Greece’s tactics have not developed since winning the European Championship in 2004 with a watertight defence and set-piece prowess.
  • (18) More than talking heads: why Davos matters Read more Without emotional connections, these leaders – the vast majority of whom are men – will use their intellectual prowess to find solutions with little attention trickling down to the greatest agent of change: our hearts.
  • (19) Gassman had started out, quite promisingly, as a sportsman in his hometown of Genoa, but quickly decided to put his athletic prowess, good looks and prodigiously mellifluous speaking voice to work in the theatre.
  • (20) But the event has not taken place for the last few years, reportedly because North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, wants to improve the country’s sporting prowess first.