hypochondriac
- adjective
- /ˌhaɪpəˈkɒndriæk/
:
hipocondríaco
- His hypochondriac tendencies led him to believe he had every disease he read about online.
We became good friends through it, but these days most people just sign me up for cult newsletters and a lot of other like really awful WebMD like hypochondriac bait.
- We became good friends through it, but these days most people just sign me up for cult newsletters and a lot of other like really awful WebMD like hypochondriac bait.
Examples
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Returning to camp, he had pains in the "epigastric" and "left hypochondriac" regions.
Academic text (2005) -
She often visits the doctor for every small ailment because she is a hypochondriac who worries excessively about her health.
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Parents who are hypochondriac may frequently rush their children to the hospital for minor illnesses.
Synonyms
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Very worried about being seriously ill
How Worried
Surface Forms
Morphology
hypochondriac = hypochondria (opaque) = hypochondr + iac
The word is historically built on the hypochondria/hypochondr- family, but the modern health-anxiety meaning is not recoverable from the parts for an average learner.
Etymology
Hypochondriac comes from Greek parts hypo- 'under' and chondros 'ribs', because people once thought the area under the ribs was the source of worry and illness. So, a hypochondriac person worries too much about their health.