Concern or solicitude respecting some thing or event, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful…
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The quality of being anxious; great solicitude; anxiety.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.The act or principle of compensating.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.See Defense.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.Alt. of Defence
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.An interruption of a state of peace or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of re…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.something that exists only as an idea
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.The act or process of idealizing.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict
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Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; pointed; -- opposed to blunt or obtuse; as, an acute angle; an acute leaf.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: acute, delirium, caused, alcohol, poisoning.common form of acute encephalitis caused by herpes simplex 1; usually affects the temporal and frontal lobes
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: acute, delirium, caused, alcohol, poisoning.Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: acute, delirium, caused, alcohol, poisoning.An impalpable powder.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: acute, delirium, caused, alcohol, poisoning.Of or pertaining to alcohol, or partaking of its qualities; derived from, or caused by, alcohol; containing alcohol; as, alcoholic mix…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: acute, delirium, caused, alcohol, poisoning.To reduce to a fine powder.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: acute, delirium, caused, alcohol, poisoning.A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics; esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever, among sailors, w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: acute, delirium, caused, alcohol, poisoning.Methyl alcohol, CH3OH; -- also, by extension, any one in the homologous series of paraffine alcohols of which methyl alcohol is the ty…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: acute, delirium, caused, alcohol, poisoning.A waxy substance extracted by alcohol or ether from cork; sometimes applied also to the portion of beeswax which is soluble in alcohol.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: acute, delirium, caused, alcohol, poisoning.A white crystalline substance, C27H55.OH, obtained from Chinese wax, and regarded as an alcohol of the marsh gas series; -- called als…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: acute, delirium, caused, alcohol, poisoning.Delirium.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: acute, delirium, caused, alcohol, poisoning.Delirium.
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