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| Main Entry: | phobia |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fear |
| Synonyms: | anxiety, aversion, avoidance, awe, detestation, disgust, dislike, distaste, dread, fear, hang-up*, hatred, horror, loathing, neurosis, obsession, repulsion, resentment, revulsion, terror, thing*, irrationality, thing about |
| Antonyms: | liking, love |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dread |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fear |
| Synonyms: | affright, alarm, apprehension, aversion, awe, cold feet*, consternation, dismay, fright, funk*, goose bumps*, horror, jitters, panic, phobia, stage fright, terror, trepidation, creeps, trepidity, worriment |
| Antonyms: | bravery, confidence, courage, encouragement, want, welcoming |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fear |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | alarm, apprehension |
| Synonyms: | abhorrence, agitation, angst, anxiety, aversion, awe, bête noire, cold feet*, concern, consternation, cowardice, despair, dismay, disquietude, distress, doubt, dread, foreboding, fright, funk*, horror, jitters, misgiving, nightmare, panic, phobia, presentiment, qualm, reverence, revulsion, scare, suspicion, terror, timidity, tremor, trepidation, uneasiness, worry, chickenheartedness, cold sweat, creeps, discomposure, faintheartedness, recreancy, trembling, unease |
| Antonyms: | bravery, courage, heroism, unconcern, fearlessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | insanity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental illness; foolishness |
| Synonyms: | aberration, absurdity, alienation, delirium, delusion, dementia, derangement, distraction, dotage, folly, frenzy, hallucination, hysteria, illusion, inanity, lunacy, madness, mania, neurosis, phobia, preposterousness, unbalance, craziness, irrationality, irresponsibility, mental disorder, psychopathy, psychosis, senselessness, unreasonableness, witlessness |
| Antonyms: | balance, sanity, soundness, wellness |
| Main Entry: | madness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insanity |
| Synonyms: | aberration, absurdity, delirium, delusion, dementia, derangement, fanaticism, foolishness, hysteria, lunacy, madness, mania, mental illness, neurosis, phobia, stupidity, unbalance, craziness, irrationality, mental disorder, psychopathy, psychosis |
| Main Entry: | mental illness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emotional disorder |
| Synonyms: | depression, derangement, insanity, lunacy, madness, mania, nervous breakdown, neurosis, phobia, craziness, delusions, disturbed mind, emotional disorder, emotional instability, loss of mind, maladjustment, mental disease, mental disorder, mental sickness, nervous disorder, neurotic disorder, paranoia, personality disorder, psychopathy, psychosis, schizophrenia, sick mind, troubled mind, unbalanced mind, unsoundness of mind |
| Main Entry: | neurosis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental disturbance, disorder |
| Synonyms: | aberration, abnormality, affliction, breakdown, compulsion, derangement, deviation, hysteria, inhibition, insanity, instability, madness, mental illness, obsession, phobia, crack-up, maladjustment, neurasthenia, personality disorder, psychological disorder, psychopathy |
| Notes: | neurosis is a disorder of the central nervous system and it has come to be used as a shortened form of psychoneurosis, a mildly disturbing emotional or physical condition brought on by a mental state, while psychosis is a severe emotional disturbance |
| Antonyms: | adjustment, balance, sanity |
| Main Entry: | obsession |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fixation; consumption with belief, desire |
| Synonyms: | attraction, ax to grind*, case*, complex, compulsion, craze*, crush, delusion, enthusiasm, fancy, fascination, fetish, hang-up*, idée fixe, infatuation, mania, monkey*, must, neurosis, one-track mind*, passion, phantom, phobia, preoccupation, thing*, bug in ear, concrete idea, something on the brain, tiger by the tail |
| Antonyms: | indifference |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | complex |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | psychological problem |
| Synonyms: | anxiety, fear, fixation, hang-up*, idée fixe, insanity, mania, neurosis, obsession, phobia, preoccupation, repression, a thing about something, exaggerated reaction, fixed idea |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | thing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idea, obsession |
| Synonyms: | attitude, craze, fad, fetish, fixation, hang-up*, idée fixe, impression, mania, notion, opinion, phobia, preoccupation, quirk, style, thought, bee in bonnet |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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