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  2. Four causes - Wikipedia

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    The appropriation of this word by Aristotle and other philosophers reflects how the Greek experience of legal practice influenced the concern in Greek thought to determine what is responsible. [11]: 100, 106–107 The word developed other meanings, including its use in philosophy in a more abstract sense. [12] [13] [14]

  3. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language , the words begin , start , commence , and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous .

  4. Worry - Wikipedia

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    A young girl looking worried. Worry is a category of perseverative cognition, i.e. a continuous thinking about negative events in the past or in the future. [3] As an emotion "worry" is experienced from anxiety or concern about a real or imagined issue, often personal issues such as health or finances, or external broader issues such as environmental pollution, social structure or ...

  5. Social panic - Wikipedia

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    This theory states that the media can't report concern where none originally exists. The media and politicians are merely an outlet for displaying what people are expressing. Furthermore, the media can affect the way the public sees situations. An example of this theory is how people cause social panics due to nuclear power.

  6. Reasons for concern - Wikipedia

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    The IPCC's five reasons for concern are: threats to endangered species and unique systems, damages from extreme climate events, effects that fall most heavily on developing countries and the poor within countries, global aggregate impacts (i.e., various measurements of total social, economic and ecological impacts), [2] [3] and large-scale high ...

  7. Cause (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    Cause, also known as etiology (/ iː t i ˈ ɒ l ə dʒ i /) and aetiology, is the reason or origination of something. [ 1 ] The word etiology is derived from the Greek αἰτιολογία , aitiologia , "giving a reason for" ( αἰτία , aitia , "cause"; and -λογία , -logia ).

  8. Solastalgia - Wikipedia

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    Solastalgia (/ ˌ s ɒ l ə ˈ s t æ l dʒ ə /) is a neologism, formed by the combination of the Latin words sōlācium (solace or comfort), 'solus' (desolation) with meanings connected to devastation, deprivation of comfort, abandonment and loneliness and the Greek root -algia (pain, suffering, grief), that describes a form of emotional or existential distress caused by negatively perceived ...

  9. Worried well - Wikipedia

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    One concern during a pandemic is that it is not easy, and sometimes even risky, to seek in-person health care. Conversations individuals might typically be having with one’s health care providers are not occurring and clarity of the meaning of symptoms are left undiscussed. The use of telemedicine is filling this gap in some communities.