Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun posttraumatic_stress_disorder

1 sense of posttraumatic stress disorder

Sense 1
posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD -- (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)
       => anxiety disorder -- (a cover term for a variety of mental disorders in which severe anxiety is a salient symptom)