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.
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Dysthymic depression
mild chronic depression; "I thought she had just been in a bad mood for thirty years, but the doctor called it dysthymia"
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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…
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.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.
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a prolonged period of time; "we've known each other for ages"; "I haven't been there for years and years"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mild, chronic, depression, thought, just.The ceremony observed in conferring the degree of doctor of divinity in some European universities. It begins by a harangue of the cha…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mild, chronic, depression, thought, just.mild and pleasant; "balmy days and nights"; "the climate was mild and conducive to life or growth"; "a soft breeze"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mild, chronic, depression, thought, just.a chronic disease interfering with the normal functioning of the liver; the major cause is chronic alcoholism
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mild, chronic, depression, thought, just.a chronic disease interfering with the normal functioning of the liver; the major cause is chronic alcoholism
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mild, chronic, depression, thought, just.A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from thirty to thirty-six pounds.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mild, chronic, depression, thought, just.Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mild, chronic, depression, thought, just.Of or relating to a doctor, or to the degree of doctor.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mild, chronic, depression, thought, just.mild chronic depression; "I thought she had just been in a bad mood for thirty years, but the doctor called it dysthymia"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mild, chronic, depression, thought, just.a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist; "he told the doctor that he had been…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mild, chronic, depression, thought, just.Following the thirty-ninth, or preceded by thirty-nine units, things, or parts.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mild, chronic, depression, thought, just.Hence: Any object apprehended, conceived, or thought of, by the mind; a notion, conception, or thought; the real object that is concei…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mild, chronic, depression, thought, just.The imperative mood; also, a verb in the imperative mood.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mild, chronic, depression, thought, just.An infinitive form of the verb; a verb in the infinitive mood; the infinitive mood.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mild, chronic, depression, thought, just.some situation or event that is thought about; "he kept drifting off the topic"; "he had been thinking about the subject for several y…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mild, chronic, depression, thought, just.One of the shooting stars which constitute the star shower that recurs near the fourteenth of November at intervals of about thirty-th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mild, chronic, depression, thought, just.a prolonged period of time; "we've known each other for ages"; "I haven't been there for years and years"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mild, chronic, depression, thought, just.some situation or event that is thought about; "he kept drifting off the topic"; "he had been thinking about the subject for several y…
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