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hypochondria

Neurotic preoccupation with bodily functions and ill health. Hypochondriacs worry that they may be harbouring some kind of disease. In its severe form (hypochondriasis), which is usually due to underlying anxiety or depression, the patient harbours delusions of ill health.



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Pierre longer suffered moments of despair, hypochondria, and disgust with life, but the malady that had formerly found expression in such acute attacks was driven inwards and never left him for a moment.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Blue devils, hypochondria, and doleful dumps, went and hid themselves among the nooks and crannies of the rocks.
Typee by Melville, Herman View in context
This was not because he was cowardly and abject, quite the contrary; but for some time past he had been in an overstrained irritable condition, verging on hypochondria.
Crime And Punishment by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
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