antianxiety
adjective, noun
antianxiety is an adjective meaning “Acting to combat or reduce anxiety” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-A-N-X-I-E-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does antianxiety mean?
adjective
- 1
Acting to combat or reduce anxiety.
noun
- 1
A medication that combats or reduces anxiety.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of antianxiety
- antianxieties plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is antianxiety?
Antianxiety appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 167,786th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Antianxiety in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense acting to combat or reduce anxiety:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | calmante, antiansiedade |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does antianxiety come from?
From anti- + anxiety.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).