hypochondria
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌhaɪpə(ʊ)ˈkɒndriə/
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- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌhaɪpoʊˈkɑndriə/, /ˌhaɪpəˈ-/
Etymology 1
[edit]From New Latin hypochondria (the morbid condition so called, supposed to have its seat in the upper part of the abdomen), from hypochondrium (see English hypochondrium for more).
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hypochondria (uncountable)
- (medicine) A formerly defined psychological disorder characterized by excessive preoccupation or worry about having a serious illness. No longer a current medical diagnosis; see hypochondriasis for more.
- Hypernyms: disorder, disease < condition
- Hyponym: medical students' disease
- Near-synonym: hypochondriasis
- (obsolete, medicine) Melancholy; depression.
- 1833, Richard Robert Madden, The Infirmities of Genius Illustrated by Referring the Anomalies in the Literary Character to the Habits and Constitutional Peculiarities of Men of Genius, page 96:
- Such labours as these, if they do not shorten life, are calculated to make it wretched, for hypochondria invariably follows close upon them.
- 1845, Life of G. W. von Leibnitz. On the basis of the German work of ... G. E. Guhrauer, page 275:
- His own temperament appears to have been neither purely sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic, nor melancholic [...] not melancholy, since he is entirely free from hypochondria, thinks rapidly, and has an active will.
- 1849, Franz Hartmann, Charles Julius Hempel, Theory of acute diseases, and their homoeopathic treatment, page 200:
- Nux likewise corresponds to hypochondria caused by rich and excessive living. In general, Nux is the best remedy for hypochondria arising from a morbid condition of the abdominal nerves ; after dinner, the patients generally experience a feeling of malaise and langour.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]psychological disorder
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Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]hypochondria
Further reading
[edit]- “hypochondria”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “hypochondria”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “hypochondria”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Portuguese
[edit]Noun
[edit]hypochondria f (plural hypochondrias)
- pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of hipocondria
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