generalized anxiety disorder

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   an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling or lightheadedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months

   SynonymsGADanxiety reaction

   Broaderanxiety disorder

Questions about generalized anxiety disorder

What does generalized anxiety disorder mean?

generalized anxiety disorder means "an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling or lightheadedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months".

What is another word for generalized anxiety disorder?

Close synonyms include GAD, anxiety reaction. 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 generalized anxiety disorder a common word?

generalized anxiety disorder 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.