POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • 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
   Synonym(s)
   • PTSD (what does PTSD mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) posttraumatic stress disorder is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • anxiety disorder (what does anxiety disorder mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • battle fatigue (what does battle fatigue mean?)
   • combat fatigue (what does combat fatigue mean?)
   • combat neurosis (what does combat neurosis mean?)
   • shell shock (what does shell shock mean?)