What's the difference between anxiety and just being nervous?

Anxiety is something that happens often. Being nervous, not so much. Anxiety is far far more severe.

"I hear anxious as connoting someone who worries a lot, where as nervous connotes a person who is easily disturbed or distressed. I think you can generally use them interchangeably, but if you did want to make a fine distinction, the anxious person is more reacting to internal fears, the nervous person is reacting more to the outside world."

I think that nervousness is a type of anxiety. Everyone gets some type of fight or flight feeling in onces life.

Anxiety usually comes back repetitively and being nervous is usually only one time. Anxiety also have make you have a mental breakdown while being nervous does not.

Nervousness is less impacting, overall, than anxiety is. If you were to say nervousness is a slight fluttering of the heart before or during a situation, for example, than anxiety is your heart hammering in your chest simply at the thought of the situation (even if the situation isn't present.) Anxiety is in effect a more serious kind of nervousness that can have very physical effects including the way breathe and how your heart beats. It also typically fogs the mind and creates a "flight or fight" response throughout the body, which impacts rational thinking.

The difference between anxiety and just being nervous is that when you are having anxiety, it is not alway about something logical. You can know that you have reason to be scared of a spider, but your body literally think it's dying so you're in high alert mode, even though you know you are not. When you're nervous you usually have a thing like a test you're afraid to fail, but you know you won't die from failing it.

I think they both come hand in hand really, anxiety can make you nervous, and being nervous can raise your anxiety so you just have to tackle them both.

The anxiety is an unwanted fear, that is fear without a stimulus or fear that is found to be irrational by the majority. Now nervous is being tensed of something that has a gr8 possibility of happenig

Nervousness and anxiety can be very much the same, but anxiety can also lead to panic attacks, and hyperventilation.

With anxiety you're nervous all the time about everything. With nervousness it's just before speeches or homework projects.