ptsd

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   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

   Broaderanxiety disorder

   Narrowerbattle fatigue

   Partssurvivor guilt

Other forms of ptsd

plural

ptsds·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ptsd

What does ptsd mean?

ptsd means "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".

How many syllables are in ptsd?

ptsd has 4 syllables, though it cannot be divided in writing — the spelling has fewer vowels than the word has beats. In IPA it is /ˌpiˈtiˌɛsˈdi/.

What is another word for ptsd?

Close synonyms include posttraumatic stress disorder. 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 ptsd a common word?

ptsd is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with ptsd?

21 words rhyme with ptsd. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.