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English noun: PTSD

1. PTSD (state) an anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as survivor guilt, reliving the trauma in dreams, numbness and lack of involvement with reality, or recurrent thoughts and images


Synonymsposttraumatic stress disorder


Broader (hypernym)anxiety disorder


Narrower (hyponym)battle fatigue, combat fatigue, combat neurosis, shell shock


Part holonymsurvivor guilt









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