ANXIETY DISORDER
Dictionary entry overview: What does anxiety disorder mean?
• ANXIETY DISORDER (noun)
The noun ANXIETY DISORDER has 1 sense:
1. a cover term for a variety of mental disorders in which severe anxiety is a salient symptom
Familiarity information: ANXIETY DISORDER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ANXIETY DISORDER (noun)
Meaning:
A cover term for a variety of mental disorders in which severe anxiety is a salient symptom
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("anxiety disorder" is a kind of...):
disturbance; folie; mental disorder; mental disturbance; psychological disorder ((psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "anxiety disorder"):
anxiety reaction; GAD; generalized anxiety disorder (an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of lightheadedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months)
obsessive-compulsive disorder (an anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent and persistent thoughts and feelings and repetitive, ritualized behaviors)
panic disorder (an anxiety disorder characterized by unpredictable panic attacks; the attacks are usually severe but brief)
phobia; phobic disorder; phobic neurosis (an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations)
posttraumatic stress disorder; PTSD (an anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as survivor guilt, reliving the trauma in dreams, numbness and lack of involvement with reality, or recurrent thoughts and images)
