Get to know Hypochondria better with 5 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like anxiety or anxiousness.
Hypochondria meaning
- A formerly defined psychological disorder characterized by excessive preoccupation or worry about having a serious illness. No longer a current medical diagnosis; see hypochondriasis for more.
- Melancholy; depression.
Synonyms of Hypochondria
Using Hypochondria
- The main meaning on this page is: A formerly defined psychological disorder characterized by excessive preoccupation or worry about having a serious illness. No longer a current medical diagnosis; see hypochondriasis for more. | Melancholy; depression.
- Useful related words include: hypochondriasis, anxiety, anxiousness.
Context around Hypochondria
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 4 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hypochondria
- In this selection, "hypochondria" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, climate, generated, emotional and motivates stand out and add context to how "hypochondria" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include book about hypochondria has made and media generated hypochondria and a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hypochondria" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hypochondria
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
We all saw what resulted from the covid planned-demic; media-generated hypochondria and a world-wide lockdown. (18 words)
The fact-free universe they live in, which stokes their emotional hypochondria, motivates the mobs threatening people like Carlson. (19 words)
She even worries that writing a book about hypochondria has made the condition a permanent feature of her identity, that in becoming an expert, she has doomed herself to the disease. (31 words)
Knowingly or not, mainstream media have been complicit in spreading “climate hypochondria,” she argued, which simply does not match the reality of what is happening to the weather and the threats this may or may not pose. (37 words)
She even worries that writing a book about hypochondria has made the condition a permanent feature of her identity, that in becoming an expert, she has doomed herself to the disease. (31 words)
Phobias and hypochondria have also been shown to involve confirmation bias for threatening information. citation In politics and law Mock trials allow researchers to examine confirmation biases in a realistic setting. (31 words)
Example sentences (5)
Knowingly or not, mainstream media have been complicit in spreading “climate hypochondria,” she argued, which simply does not match the reality of what is happening to the weather and the threats this may or may not pose.
She even worries that writing a book about hypochondria has made the condition a permanent feature of her identity, that in becoming an expert, she has doomed herself to the disease.
We all saw what resulted from the covid planned-demic; media-generated hypochondria and a world-wide lockdown.
The fact-free universe they live in, which stokes their emotional hypochondria, motivates the mobs threatening people like Carlson.
Phobias and hypochondria have also been shown to involve confirmation bias for threatening information. citation In politics and law Mock trials allow researchers to examine confirmation biases in a realistic setting.