solicitude

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   care, concern, or anxious attentiveness toward someone

   She inquired about his health with genuine solicitude.

From Old French sollicitude, from Latin sollicitūdō ('anxiety, care, uneasiness'), from sollicitus ('agitated, anxious'), from sollus ('whole') + citus (past participle of ciēre 'to move').

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