anxiety : Idioms & Phrases

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anxiety attack

  • noun a sudden acute episode of intense anxiety and feelings of panic
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anxiety disorder

  • noun a cover term for a variety of mental disorders in which severe anxiety is a salient symptom
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anxiety hysteria

  • noun a form of hysteria having features of both conversion disorder and anxiety neurosis
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anxiety neurosis

  • noun characterized by diffuse anxiety and often somatic manifestations of fear
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anxiety reaction

  • noun an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling or lightheadedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months
    GAD; anxiety reaction.
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castration anxiety

  • noun (psychoanalysis) anxiety resulting from real or imagined threats to your sexual functions; originally applied only to men but can in principle apply to women
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generalized anxiety disorder

  • noun an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling or lightheadedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months
    GAD; anxiety reaction.
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