Hypochondria Definition
hīpə-kŏndrē-ə
hypochondrium
noun
The conviction that one is or is likely to become ill, often involving symptoms when illness is neither present nor likely, and persisting despite reassurance and medical evidence to the contrary.
American Heritage
Abnormal anxiety over one's health, often with imagined symptoms and severe melancholy.
Webster's New World
(anatomy) Plural form of hypochondrium.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
- hypochondriasis
- imagined ill-health
- melancholia
- anxiety
- depression
- low spirits
- doldrums
- despondency
- melancholy
- anxiety neurosis
- dejection
Other Word Forms of Hypochondria
Noun
Singular:
hypochondria
Plural:
hypochondriasOrigin of Hypochondria
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Late Latin abdomen from Greek hupokhondria pl. of hupokhondrion abdomen (held to be the seat of melancholy) from neuter of hupokhondrios under the cartilage of the breastbone hupo- hypo- khondros cartilage ghrendh- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Medieval Latin hypochondria (“the morbid condition so called, supposed to have its seat in the upper part of the abdomen”), from New Latin hypochondrium (see hypochondrium for more).
From Wiktionary
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