| NOUN | state | 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 |
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| Meaning | 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. | |
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| Synonym | PTSD | |
| Parts | survivor guilt | A deep feeling of guilt often experienced by those who have survived some catastrophe that took the lives of many others |
| Narrower | battle fatigue, combat fatigue, combat neurosis, shell shock | A mental disorder caused by stress of active warfare |
| Broader | anxiety disorder | A cover term for a variety of mental disorders in which severe anxiety is a salient symptom |
| Catalan | síndrome d'estrès posttraumàtic | |
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