What's the difference between worrier and worrywart?

Worrier


Definition:

  • (n.) One who worries.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The lucky thing is, says Susan Calman , that although she is "an eternal worrier, occasionally I do something stupid."
  • (2) Non-worriers evidenced the same disruptive effects in the 15-worry condition as worriers in that condition and worriers in Study 1.
  • (3) It’s now!” says their worrier-in-chief, as one of his followers smokes two cigarettes at the same time.
  • (4) "Mum's a worrier and I knew that if I forgot to call one day, she'd conclude it was because I'd gone and found my birth family," she explains.
  • (5) I know that phobias are usually learned, or acquired through a traumatic experience, and they’re more common in worriers like me.
  • (6) Using repertory grid methodology (Bieri et al., 1966) with a group of moderately mood-disturbed 'worriers', results showed that this group are significantly more complex than matched controls, but only for representations concerned with themselves.
  • (7) On thought sampling measures obtained during relaxed wakefulness periods and rated by objective judges, and on self-report measures obtained during the focused attention task, worriers evidenced significantly more negatively affect-laden cognitive intrusions.
  • (8) Worriers and nonworriers from a college population were compared on the Imaginal Processing Inventory, the Self-Consciousness scale, and the Sandler-Hazari Obsessionality Inventory.
  • (9) The results suggest that the pessimistic subjective probabilities shown by chronic worriers can be understood using general theories of judgment, specifically, by the use of the availability heuristic (Tversky & Kahneman, 1973).
  • (10) Rating by the significant other of how much of a problem worry was for the patient and whether the patient was a worrier preillness was also significantly correlated.
  • (11) Worriers and non-worriers were assigned to two conditions, either O-worry ("Relax and let your mind wander for 15 minutes") or 15-worry ("Worry as you typically would for 15 minutes").
  • (12) The findings are taken as indicating that worry is accompanied by changes in cognitive processing and that these changes are similar for worriers and non-worriers.
  • (13) Oldest children can be perfectionists and worriers, and may put pressure on themselves to succeed.
  • (14) There were no significant differences between "worriers" and "nonworriers" on demographic or disease variables.
  • (15) Even if you are an inveterate non-worrier, you will feel more secure after this.
  • (16) Similarly, worriers in the O-worry condition showed a reduction in disruptive effects.
  • (17) Worriers showed a significant disruption in processing as the ambiguity of the category membership increased.
  • (18) Worriers reported a more negative daydreaming style, greater difficulty with attentional control, and greater obsessional symptoms, public self-consciousness and social anxiety.
  • (19) Though he was a worrier – a trait which undermined his career as a player – he says that, as an umpire, he was surprisingly good at putting wrong decisions behind him.
  • (20) The story can be summed up thus: touring was exhausting, sessions with the first producer (Radiohead's Nigel Godrich) didn't work out, and frontman Julian Casablancas is a terrible worrier.

Worrywart


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Post–The Wire and Breaking Bad, this sort of super–slick, "cyber" worrywarting is all a bit… 1999.
  • (2) It is, unmistakably, C-3PO , the finicky, worrywart droid whom Daniels has played in all six Star Wars films, and plays again in the latest instalment, The Force Awakens , which is due out in December.
  • (3) The Eraser song 'Atoms For Peace' is about Yorke grappling with his worrywart, paranoid-android tendencies.

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