rare. [f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being anxious, anxiety.
1658. Manton, Exp. Jude, Wks. 1871, V. 21. An anxiousness about their everlasting state.
1798. Southey, Occas. Pieces, xi. Wks. II. 241. A husbands love, a fathers anxiousness.
1847. Bushnell, Chr. Nurt., II. ii. (1861), 266. Where there is but little faith, there is apt to be great anxiousness.