solicitousness

Examples

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• I pass the dumbbells (with great solicitousness - "sure you got 'em, now?" ) to my boyfriend, who will in a moment return the favor: the acceptability, even the necessity, of the gesture in gym protocol camouflages the most precious reason for performing it: that our fingers might briefly touch.

  Academic text (1992)

• She, who had personified solicitousness only five minutes earlier, looked right through me as though I were a ghost.

  Academic text (2002)

• Well, what I suggested here, what I suggested here is that the solicitousness of neighbors can help to break down the being frozen and withdrawn.

• She did not want their solicitousness and her name on the prayer chain.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Not scrupling to lay waste to an entire city, Alexander nevertheless manifested a solicitousness for the poet's house that passes modern understanding.

  Academic text (2002)

• So as not to be the last in the castle, they moved with uncharacteristic speed and solicitousness to reach an agreement with the united opposition for direct and almost unconditional negotiations.

  Academic text (1991)

• Dying, she had aroused a kind of morbid solicitousness in him, strong enough that he had taken two months off from his job to look after her as she moved from her flat to the hospital and then to the crematorium.

  Fiction book (2000)

• There was intense interest in Whitecoat at the highest levels of the military-medical establishment and great solicitousness for the continued support of Seventh-Day Adventist leaders.

  Academic text (1999)

• Divine Solicitousness ('Nothing is too small, like finding my lost keys, to pray to God about,' 'If you have deep faith and pure motives, God will grant even your smallest requests');

  Blog text (2)

• So was Margaret Thatcher's phony solicitousness—which was only making more glaring her lack of genuine respect for our work or awareness of how stressful it is.

  Fiction book (1994)

Synonyms

C

concern

vssolicitousness

∞ 1.5

A feeling of worry about people or things you care about

is anxious attention that focuses on worry rather than calm support

T

thoughtfulness

vssolicitousness

8 2.9

Being kind and careful about other people's needs and feelings

is anxious, worried caring rather than steady, kind attention

S

solicitude

vssolicitousness

3 8.8

Care and worry that people show for someone, often more than needed

shows anxious care without being overly excessive

L

loving-kindness

vssolicitousness

1 5.2

A warm, gentle feeling of care and concern for other people

is anxious care motivated more by worry than by love

C

concernment

vssolicitousness

7.2

A feeling of worry and care about someone or something

is anxious attention stressing worry rather than mere interest

C

considerateness

vssolicitousness

6.1

Care for other people's needs and feelings

is anxious care marked by worry rather than calm consideration

C

compassionateness

vssolicitousness

7.6

A deep care for people who suffer that makes you want to help them

is anxious care centered on worry rather than sympathetic response

W

warmheartedness

vssolicitousness

4.4

A kind and friendly feeling toward other people

is anxious care focused on worry rather than warm affection

O

obligingness

vssolicitousness

7.5

Readiness to help other people when asked

is anxious caring driven by worry rather than helpful action

Antonyms

C

carelessness

16 2.8

Lack of attention that causes mistakes or accidents

How Concerned

overprotection

1 5.7

solicitousness

1 9.1

protectiveness

3 3.9

consideration

58 3.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology