English > anxiety disorder: 1 sense > noun 1, state| Meaning | A cover term for a variety of mental disorders in which severe anxiety is a salient symptom. |
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| Narrower | generalized anxiety disorder, GAD, anxiety reaction | 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 |
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| 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 |
| phobia, phobic disorder, phobic neurosis | An anxiety disorder characterized by extreme / 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 |
| Broader | mental disorder, mental disturbance, disturbance, psychological disorder, folie | (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion |
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| Spanish | trastorno de ansiedad |
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