in psychoanalysis, this refers to a disturbance or neurosis. The most prominent symptoms are thought to be persistent anxiety, feelings of impending disaster, and free-floating fear accompanied by sym [..]

Anxiety neurosis is a disorder that presents as feelings of impending doom or of persistent apprehension. Unlike paranoia, which comes from feelings of fear (real or imaginary) of things or people in [..]

Chronic abnormal distress and worry to the point of panic followed by a tendency to avoid or run from the feared situation, associated with overaction of the sympathetic nervous system. (05 Mar 2000)