We explain what anxiety is, its literal and metaphorical meaning and the origin of the term. Also, synonyms, antonyms and use in sentences.
What is anxiety?
Anxiety is the name we give in Spanish to a feeling of restlessness, restlessness or distress, which may be due to an unpleasant situation that is suffered or that could be suffered in the immediate future. Would become a synonymous of anguish.
However, this use of the word is actually metaphorical, since the term capsize is in common use in maritime speech: it is what happens to a vessel that staggers and capsizes, that is, turns “upside down. ”, Generally due to the effect of waves and very intense winds.
Ships that capsize tend to sink, as they flood and lose buoyancy, so by “capsizing” we mean that we feel just like a ship that is tilted, unstable, about to capsize.
Zozobra comes from the Latin voices subtus, “Under”, and Super, "Above" or "above", but the term comes to Spanish as a heritage from Catalan above, undercut, with the same meaning. It is a word that we associate with nervousness, with the feeling of imminent failure, and that is widely used in the language literary. In fact, it is the title of a famous collection of poems by the Mexican modernist Ramón López Velarde (1888-1921).
On the contrary, it is not usually used in common language, although in American Spanish, given its important maritime heritage, it tends to appear more daily. We have already seen some of its synonyms, so the antonyms from anxiety they would become stillness, tranquility, mildness or calm.
Examples of sentences with "zozobra"
Here are some examples of sentences with this word:
- "Tomorrow I have an exam, tonight I am not going to sleep from so much anxiety."
- "Whenever something bad happens to me, my mother first gets an inexplicable anxiety."
- "In the grip of intense anxiety, our hero decided to walk through the meadow."
- "When the ship began to capsize, the captain was already floating in the water."