posttraumatic stress disorder

Questions about posttraumatic stress disorder

What is another word for posttraumatic stress disorder?

It depends which posttraumatic stress disorder you mean. In the sense “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”, the synonyms are PTSD. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of posttraumatic stress disorder?

WordNet records no antonym for posttraumatic stress disorder. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for posttraumatic stress disorder come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of posttraumatic stress disorder

• Full entry for posttraumatic stress disorderAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for posttraumatic stress disorderWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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