different between solicitude vs concernment

English

Etymology

From Old French sollicitude, from Latin sollicit?d? (“anxiety”), from sollicitus, solicitus (“anxious, solicitous”). See solicitous.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??l?s??t(j)u?d/
• Hyphenation: so?lic?i?tude

Noun

solicitude (usually uncountable, plural solicitudes)

1. The state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire for good; anxiety.
2. Special or pronounced concern or attention.
3. A cause of anxiety or concern.

Related terms

• solicit
• solicitation
• solicitor
• solicitous

Translations

Further reading

• solicitude in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• solicitude in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• solicitude at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• isodulcite, leucitoids

English

Etymology

concern +? -ment

Noun

concernment (countable and uncountable, plural concernments)

1. (obsolete) The state or quality of being a concern
2. That in which one is concerned or interested; concern; affair; interest.
   • 1741, Isaac Watts, The Improvement of the Mind

     Our everlasting concernments.
3. importance; moment; consequence
   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rules and Exercises of Holy Living

     Let every action of concernment be begun with prayer.

4. concern; participation; interposition

   • He married a daughter to the earl of Northumberland without any other approbation of her father or concernment in it, than suffering him and her come into his presence.

5. emotion of mind; solicitude; anxiety
   • 1677, John Dryden, All for Love

     While they are so eager to destroy the fame of others, their ambition is manifest in their concernment.

Synonyms

• concern