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climate anxiety

climate anxiety noun: anxiety about climate change.

Noun

climate anxiety (uncountable)

  1. Anxiety about climate change.
    • Therapy can help people struggling with climate anxiety and depression; but since climate emotions are driven by real, intensifying, physical processes on Earth, therapy only treats the symptom.2021 November 4, Peter Kalmus, “Climate depression is real. And it is spreading fast among our youth”, in The Guardian
    • Alina Black, a mother of two in Portland, Ore., sought a therapist who specialized in climate anxiety to address her mounting panics. “I feel like I have developed a phobia to my way of life,” she said.2022 February 6, Ellen Barry, “Climate Change Enters the Therapy Room”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Questions about climate anxiety

What does climate anxiety mean?
Climate anxiety means anxiety about climate change.
What part of speech is climate anxiety?
Climate anxiety is a noun.

Words near climate anxiety in the dictionary

  1. climatarian
  2. climatarians
  3. climatastrophe
  4. climatastrophes
  5. climate
  6. climate anxiety
  7. climate arson
  8. climate arsonist
  9. climate arsonists
  10. climate bond
  11. climate bonds

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