a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction
Used in the same subject area: Personality psychology, Psychology, Abnormal psychology.
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characterized by diffuse anxiety and often somatic manifestations of fear
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a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction
Used in the same subject area: Personality psychology, Psychology, Abnormal psychology.a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction
Used in the same subject area: Personality psychology, Psychology, Abnormal psychology.neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions
Used in the same subject area: Personality psychology, Psychology, Abnormal psychology.neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions
Used in the same subject area: Personality psychology, Psychology, Abnormal psychology.(psychology) an extroverted disposition; concern with what is outside the self
Used in the same subject area: Personality psychology, Psychology.(psychology) an extroverted disposition; concern with what is outside the self
Used in the same subject area: Personality psychology, Psychology.a cover term for a variety of mental disorders in which severe anxiety is a salient symptom
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.inflexible and maladaptive patterns of behavior
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations; "phobic disorder is a general…
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations; "phobic disorder is a general…
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an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: characterized, diffuse, anxiety, somatic, manifestations.Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear; apprehensive.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: characterized, diffuse, anxiety, somatic, manifestations.a morbid fear of open spaces (as fear of being caught alone in some public place)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: characterized, diffuse, anxiety, somatic, manifestations.To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: characterized, diffuse, anxiety, somatic, manifestations.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder characterized by somatic delusions that you are too fat despite being emaciated
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: characterized, diffuse, anxiety, somatic, manifestations.an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling or lightheade…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: characterized, diffuse, anxiety, somatic, manifestations.To depress or discourage with fear; to impress with fear in such a manner that the mind shrinks, or loses its firmness; to overcome wi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: characterized, diffuse, anxiety, somatic, manifestations.To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: characterized, diffuse, anxiety, somatic, manifestations.a mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no appare…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: characterized, diffuse, anxiety, somatic, manifestations.a mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no appare…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: characterized, diffuse, anxiety, somatic, manifestations.a mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no appare…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: characterized, diffuse, anxiety, somatic, manifestations.A treatise on demons; a supposititious science which treats of demons and their manifestations.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: characterized, diffuse, anxiety, somatic, manifestations.Poured out; widely spread; not restrained; copious; full; esp., of style, opposed to concise or terse; verbose; prolix; as, a diffuse…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: characterized, diffuse, anxiety, somatic, manifestations.an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling or lightheade…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: characterized, diffuse, anxiety, somatic, manifestations.an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling or lightheade…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: characterized, diffuse, anxiety, somatic, manifestations.The presence of the Divine Being; the manifestations of the divine nature and favor to the blessed in heaven; celestial honor; heaven.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: characterized, diffuse, anxiety, somatic, manifestations.The theory that the various forms of activity in nature are manifestations of the same force.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: characterized, diffuse, anxiety, somatic, manifestations.sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events; "panic in the stock market"; "a war scare"; "a bomb scare led them to evacuate t…
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