worriment

English

Alternative forms

• worryment

Etymology

From worry +‎ -ment.

Noun

worriment (countable and uncountable, plural worriments)

1. The act of worrying; anxiety.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 46:

     Maybe he feared that himself, John Guthrie, his rage was his worriment with the night […].

2. A worrying situation or thing.