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worryment

worryment is the alternative spelling of worriment.

Meaning of worriment

Noun

worriment (countable and uncountable, plural worriments)

  1. The act of worrying; anxiety.
    • Maybe he feared that himself, John Guthrie, his rage was his worriment with the night […].1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 46
  2. A worrying situation or thing.

Forms of worryment

pluralworryments

Origin of worryment

From worry + -ment.

Questions about worryment

What is worryment the alternative spelling of?
Worryment is the alternative spelling of worriment.

Words near worryment in the dictionary

  1. worryingly
  2. worryings
  3. worryless
  4. worrylessness
  5. worrylines
  6. worryment
  7. worryments
  8. worrywart
  9. worrywarts
  10. wors
  11. Worsborough

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Adapted from Wiktionary: worryment (page history and authors); worriment (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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