anxiety attack

1. 1.

   a sudden acute episode of intense anxiety and feelings of panic

   Broaderattack

Questions about anxiety attack

What does anxiety attack mean?

anxiety attack means "a sudden acute episode of intense anxiety and feelings of panic".

Is anxiety attack a common word?

anxiety attack is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.