solicitude
4 antonyms for solicitude — opposites grouped by meaning.
Noun — A feeling of worry caused by fear of harm or a wish for something good to happen.
Synonyms by Meaning
1. noun
A feeling of worry caused by fear of harm or a wish for something good to happen.
Opposites
2. noun
Particular care or attention given to someone or something.
“The increasing solicitude for human life that characterizes administrative government is limited to people who are perceived as members or citizens of the polity, for reasons that will be discussed at length in Chapter 6.”
Opposites
Antonyms
Etymology
Came into English from Middle English solicitude, from Old French sollicitude, from Latin sollicitūdō (“anxiety”), from sollicitus, solicitus (“anxious, solicitous”). See solicitous.
Full origin of solicitude →