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separation anxiety

n. 1 A psychological condition in some children, characterized by apprehension when separated from a parent 2 Similar anxious behaviour of a domestic animal in the absence of its owner

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Separation anxiety (disambiguation)

Separation anxiety disorder is a psychological condition in which an individual experiences excessive anxiety regarding separation from home or from people to whom the individual has a strong emotional attachment.

Separation Anxiety may also refer to:

  • Separation anxiety in dogs, where dogs exhibit distress when separated from their handler
  • Venom: Separation Anxiety, a comic book series
    • Spider-Man & Venom: Separation Anxiety, a 1995 SNES video game based on the comics
  • Separation Anxieties, a 2000 album by 12 Rods
  • Separation Anxiety, a 2008 film by Kelly Glenn Williams
  • Separation Anxiety, a 2009 mixtape by Cadence Weapon
  • "Separation Anxiety", an episode of That's So Raven
  • "Separation Anxiety" (Homeland), a 2015 episode of the TV series Homeland
  • Separation Anxiety (game show) a game show on the TBS network
Separation Anxiety (Homeland)

"Separation Anxiety" is the fifth season premiere of the American television drama series Homeland, and the 49th episode overall. It premiered on Showtime on October 4, 2015.

Separation Anxiety (TV series)

Separation Anxiety is an American television game show hosted by Iliza Shlesinger. The series premiered on TBS on March 8, 2016.

Usage examples of "separation anxiety".

She won't know the name for it but any kid who's ever lost a parent knows -- this is separation anxiety: the person who went inside is never coming out.

I hate to leave her, when I came back from Africa she didn't know who I was and then she had tremendous separation anxiety.

How can a woman who has lost her daughter and is suffering acute separation anxiety be capable of writing a comic fantasy?

He said that it was because he was fascinated by his experiments, and got separation anxiety if he was away from his animals and his purple blotches for too long, but I didn't believe him.

I get separation anxiety if I can't look through a hood once in a while to reassure myself that what my senses tell me is by no means the whole story.