false pregnancy

1. 1.

   physiological state in which a woman exhibits symptoms of pregnancy but is not pregnant

   Synonymspseudocyesis

   Broaderphysical condition

Questions about false pregnancy

What does false pregnancy mean?

false pregnancy means "physiological state in which a woman exhibits symptoms of pregnancy but is not pregnant".

What is another word for false pregnancy?

Close synonyms include pseudocyesis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is false pregnancy a common word?

false pregnancy 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.