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Chronic and abnormal anxiety about imaginary symptoms and ailments
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hypochondria
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hypochondrium \Hy`po*chon"dri*um\, n.; pl. L. Hypochondria , E. Hypochondriums . [L., fr. Gr. ?, from ? under the cartilage of the breastbone; ? under + ? cartilage.] (Anat.) Either of the hypochondriac regions.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1839, "illness without a specific cause," earlier (1660s) "depression or melancholy without real cause," earlier still (late 14c.) ipocondrie "upper abdomen," from Late Latin hypochondria "the abdomen," from Greek hypokhondria (neuter plural of hypokhondrios ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context medicine English) A psychological disorder characterized by excessive preoccupation or worry about having a serious illness. 2 (context anatomy English) (plural of hypochondrium English)Category:English plurals
WordNet
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Usage examples of hypochondria.
Behind her new Saints Louis and Paul there would be not only Science purifying Religion and being purified by it, but hypochondria, melancholia, cowardice, stupidity, cruelty, muckraking curiosity, knowledge without wisdom, and everything that the eternal soul in Nature loathes, instead of the virtues of which St Catherine was the figure head.
Prostatorrhea, spermatorrhea, impotency, hypochondria, and general debility of the generative organs, arise from sexual excesses.
Aunt Celly would have been lying down indulging in her daily bout of hypochondria, and Aunt Tia would have been reading aloud to her or talking baby talk to the pittins.
Anxiety, hypochondria, displacency, melancholia, costive, delicate stomachs - the ills of the city merchant increased tenfold.
Third is somatic, which involves a kind of hyper awareness of the body--anorexia nervosa or hypochondria, for example.
She had expected this diatribe yesterday when they returned from the human ship, but Tiam had been in one of his pre-conference hypochondrias, and had retired early to his side of the suite, alone.
He informs me that they may constantly be seen in energetic action in cases of melancholia, and especially of hypochondria.