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hypochondriac
[ hahy-puh-kon-dree-ak ]
adjective
- Psychiatry.
- relating to, having, or experiencing hypochondria, an excessive preoccupation with or anxiety about one's health:
This biography of the poet paints him as a hypochondriac depressive.
- produced by an excessive preoccupation with or anxiety about one's health:
Hypochondriac feelings overwhelmed her.
- exhibiting excessive worry about one's health:
Her hypochondriac roommate had been convinced that their apartment was killing them with black mold.
- Anatomy, Zoology. of or relating to the hypochondrium.
noun
- Psychiatry. a person experiencing or subject to hypochondria.
- a person who worries or talks excessively about their health.
hypochondriac
/ ˌɪəˈɒԻɪˌæ /
noun
- a person suffering from hypochondria
adjective
- relating to or suffering from hypochondria
- anatomy of or relating to the hypochondrium
hypochondriac
- A person who constantly believes he or she is ill or about to become ill.
Derived Forms
- ˌdzDzˈ, adverb
Other 51Թ Forms
- ··Dz···· adverb
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of hypochondriac1
Example Sentences
Winslet’s chancellor is a nervy, vulgar, insecure hypochondriac obsessed with her dead demanding father, a sly reference, perhaps, to France’s Marine Le Pen.
Doctors “called me a hypochondriac and said it was just anxiety and depression,” said Hannah Powell, a 26-year-old Utah woman who went undiagnosed for five years.
Maybe I was one of those hypochondriacs, obsessing over Fig’s health.
Danny is agoraphobic, socially anxious, obsessive, something of a hypochondriac and nominally a journalist, that most nominal of television professions.
In a pre-pandemic world, even if flu cases were high, masking in public may have prompted a stranger to treat you like a mentally ill hypochondriac.
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