hypochondria (root: hypochondrium)

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: hy=po=chon=dri=a

CIDE DICTIONARY

hypochondria, n. [NL.].

 An excessive concern about one's own health, particularly a morbid worry about illnesses which a person imagines are affecting him, often focusing on specific symptoms; also called hypochondriasis.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hypochondria, n.
1 abnormal anxiety about one's health.
2 morbid depression without real cause.

Etymology

LL f. Gk hupokhondria soft parts of the body below the ribs, where melancholy was thought to arise (as HYPO-, khondros sternal cartilage)

THESAURUS

hypochondria

abstraction, abulia, accident neurosis, alienation, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxiety state, apathy, association neurosis, battle fatigue, blast neurosis, cachexia, cachexy, catatonic stupor, chronic ill health, combat fatigue, compensation neurosis, compulsion, compulsion neurosis, conversion hysteria, conversion neurosis, debilitation, debility, decrepitude, dejection, delicacy, delicate health, depression, detachment, elation, emotionalism, enervation, euphoria, exhaustion, expectation neurosis, feebleness, fixation neurosis, folie du doute, fragility, frailty, fright neurosis, healthlessness, homosexual neurosis, hypochondriasis, hysteria, hysterics, ill health, indifference, infirmity, insensibility, invalidism, invalidity, languishing, languishment, lethargy, mania, melancholia, mental distress, morbidity, morbidness, neurosis, neuroticism, obsession, obsessional neurosis, occupational neurosis, pathological indecisiveness, pathoneurosis, peakedness, phobia, poor health, preoccupation, psychalgia, psychasthenia, psychomotor disturbance, psychoneurosis, psychoneurotic disorder, psychopathia martialis, regression neurosis, shell shock, sickliness, situational neurosis, stupor, tic, twitching, unhealthiness, unresponsiveness, unsoundness, unwholesomeness, valetudinarianism, war neurosis, wasting, weakliness, withdrawal