| NOUN | state | psychic trauma, trauma | an emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects |
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| Meaning | An emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects. | |
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| Synonym | trauma | |
| Narrower | birth trauma | emotional injury inflicted on an infant by events incident to birth that is alleged to appear in symbolic form in patients with mental illness |
| Broader | psychological state, psychological condition, mental state, mental condition | (psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic |
| Spanish | trauma | |
| Catalan | trauma | |
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