Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
hypochondria .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A mental disorder in which melancholy and gloomy views torment the affected person, particularly concerning his own health; a morbid and deluded belief that one is afflicted with disease.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine A mental disorder characterized by excessive fear of or preoccupation with a serious illness, despite medical testing and reassurance to the contrary.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun chronic and abnormal anxiety about imaginary symptoms and ailments
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Fortunate that it was so, otherwise a lunatic asylum, or a permanent state of what the doctors call hypochondriasis, might have followed.
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While Harris Interactive refers to those who surf the web for medical or health-related information as "cyberchondriacs", this is not exactly correct as the portmanteau derives from hypochondriasis, which is a morbid obsession with imaginary physical ailments whereas the adults surveyed in the poll merely admitted to looking online for health information.
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So she doesn't actually meet the official psychiatric definition of "hypochondriasis," in which a misinterpretation of symptoms leads to a preoccupation with having a serious illness that interferes with daily functions and lasts at least six months despite reassurances from a doctor.
Dr. Jon LaPook: What Would Susie Say? Susie Essman's Enlarged Prostate
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Too much sex could cause not only vertigo and epilepsy but also “seminal weakness, impotence . . . pulmonary consumption, hypochondriasis, loss of memory . . . and death.”
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Note also the profound hypochondriasis and fear that they are being infected by a "cancer"--again, a plot presumably put together by the Jews.
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True hypochondriasis can be a devastating illness but fortunately affects only about three percent of the population.
Dr. Jon LaPook: What Would Susie Say? Susie Essman's Enlarged Prostate
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The least mature—or psychotic defenses include: denial, distortion, and delusional projection paranoia; the immature defenses are: fantasy, projection, hypochondriasis, passive-aggression and acting out.
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The least mature—or psychotic defenses include: denial, distortion, and delusional projection paranoia; the immature defenses are: fantasy, projection, hypochondriasis, passive-aggression and acting out.
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He had a little spike in the hypochondriasis scale—but then, who didn't?
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He had a little spike in the hypochondriasis scale—but then, who didn't?
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