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anxiety hysteria

noun

Medical Definition of ANXIETY HYSTERIA

:  an anxiety disorder and especially a phobia when the mental aspects of anxiety are emphasized over any accompanying physical symptoms (as heart palpitations and breathlessness)—used especially in early Freudian psychiatry

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