zozobra

capsizing; roll of the dice, throw of the dice; anxiety; worry

“En la zozobra de la plaga, la gente más débil no soporta la evidencia de nuestra absoluta fragilidad: una birria de virus que ni siquiera alcanzamos a ver es capaz de tumbarnos.” — In the anxiety of the plague, the weakest people cannot bear the proof of our complete fragility: a virus that we cannot even see is capable of taking us down.

Deverbal from zozobrar, or borrowed from Old Catalan sotsobre, from sots + sobre; cf. modern Catalan sotsobrar (“to capsize”).