43 examples of hypochondria in sentences

All his life he suffered from hypochondria, but curiously traced his malady to the stars rather than to his own liver.

Indeed, it might be taken rather for a picture of hypochondria than jealousy, and under that aspect is very appalling.

In short, the whole thing had been merely the passing off of a paroxysm of hypochondria, and he had already begun to be satisfied that he should raise his interest money that year without material difficulty.

Animal spirits themselves are too often but a counterbalance to the most thoughtful melancholy; and one fit of jaundice or hypochondria might have enabled the poet to see more visions of the unknown and the inscrutable in a single day, than perhaps ever entered the imagination of the elegant Latin scholar, or even the disciple of Plato.

One could imagine him driving hypochondria out of many a patient's mind by thus making his own vigorous optimism flow down from his fingertips, while he looked into the patient's eye.

The demon of hypochondria was always lying in wait for him, and could be exorcised for a time only by hard work or social excitement.

He seems to have taken pride in his sufferings from hypochondria; though, in truth, his melancholy diverges from Johnson's by as great a difference as that which divides any two varieties in Jaques's classification.

It never assumed the form of hypochondria, hallucination, misogyny, or misanthropy.

An inherited scrofula, which often took the form of hypochondria and threatened to affect his brain, deprived him of control over the muscles of his face.

The doctor said he was troubled with hypochondria, and that his gout was still lurking in his system, and ordered him to that ancient haunt of crutches and chalk-stones, Buxton.

At length, being convinced that the case was one of pure hypochondria, he wrote to the afflicted lady, saying that he did not feel justified in any longer taking her money for a case which was evidently beyond his powers, but recommended her to try change of air, live in the country, and trust to that edax rerum which sooner or later cures all human ills.

416, n. 2; Dictionary, i. 186; hypochondria, i. 483; last visit, iv.

HYPOCHONDRIA, i. 66, 343; iii. 192.

Janet Ward & Wolcott Gibbs, Jr. (C); 22Dec66; R399128. Hypochondria, the fear of him no good whatever.

" I think that the society of people who do want to know, and who ply one with questions as to one's tastes and habits, are almost more trying than the purely narrative people, and induce a subtle sense of moral hypochondria.

Hypochondria not only makes us unreasonably cross and angry over things concerning the present; not only fills us with groundless fears of imaginative mishaps for the future; but also causes us to unjustly reproach ourselves concerning our actions in the past.

Hypochondria causes a man to be always searching for and racking his brain about things that either irritate or torment him.

I had brought with me from home a certain touch of hypochondria, and a chronic pain in my breast, induced by a fall from horseback, perceptibly increased, and made me dejected.

In the two following Stanzas, the dropsy and hypochondria are beautifully described.

And moping here did Hypochondria sit, Mother of spleen, in robes of various die, Who vexed was full oft with ugly fit; And some her frantic deem'd, and some her deem'd a wit.

Poor Miss S'mantha fell into the deadly mire of hypochondria.

It is all mighty fine calling this religious hypochondria and depression of spirits.

During the last month of his stay in Paris, when he was weary of everything, afflicted with hypochondria, the prey of melancholia, when his nerves had become so sensitive that the sight of an unpleasant object or person impressed itself deeply on his brainso deeply that several days were required before the impression could be effacedthe touch of a human body brushing against him in the street had been an excruciating agony.

A passive hypochondria, born of their isolation, was the last ludicrously pathetic touch of their situation.

Hypochondria, baby as he was, seemed already to have fixed his fangs upon him.

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