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free-floating anxiety

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free-floating anxiety [¦frē ¦flōd·iŋ aŋ′zī·ə·tē]
(psychology)
Severe, generalized, persistent anxiety not specifically ascribed to a particular object or event and often a precursor of panic.


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While the camera work is intentionally rough and immediate, the multilayered sound track, with its crescendo of offscreen gunfire and explosions, is the cinematography's perfect counterpoint and has a great deal to do with the feeling of free-floating anxiety that the viewer is left with long after the film is over.
There seems to be a free-floating anxiety, like the refined anthrax dust that may or may not be in the air.
My favorite charts are by Elizabeth Campbell, who mixes free association and free-floating anxiety to map out various choices in love, career, and diet and to detail their consequences, which range from stardom to extreme weight gain.
 
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