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hypochondriacadj.n. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French hypocondriaque; Latin hypochondriacus. Etymology: < (i) Middle French, French †hypochondriaque, hypocondriaque (adjective) affected by hypochondria (1572), (noun) person suffering from hypochondria (a1590), hypochondria (1598 in the passage translated in quot. 1599 at sense B. 1), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin hypochondriacus, hypocondriacus of or relating to the upper parts of the abdomen (6th cent.) < Hellenistic Greek ὑποχονδριακός affected in the hypochondria < ancient Greek ὑποχονδρια hypochondria n. + -ακός -ac suffix. Compare hypochondriacal adj.With hypochondriac region at sense A. 3a compare post-classical Latin partes hypochondriacae (1637 or earlier). A. adj.1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie ii. vi. f. 151 An other Hypochondriake person [L. Alius quidam hypocondriacus], that is to say, one, whose Hartstrynges were embolned and swolne wyth Melancholie Humour and inflammations, was verily perswaded, yt hee had frogges and Toades in his bealie. 1599 R. Surflet tr. A. Du Laurens 131 I have seene two Hypochondriake persons [Fr. hypochondriaques]..raging mad. 1641 J. Jackson iii. 187 What is poore and silly man alone, but..a melancholick and hypochondriack creature? 1715 J. Delacoste tr. H. Boerhaave 150 Why hypochondriac, hysteric, convuls'd and cholicky People are much afflicted with Wind? 1782 V. Knox (new ed.) I. xxi. 103 That lowness of spirits..may give rise to complaints founded only in an hypochondriac imagination. 1856 H. B. Stowe I. ii. 19 That occasional gleam of troubled wildness which betrays the hypochondriac temperament. 1900 R. N. Carey xl. 406 Mrs. Lyndhurst was an altered woman—all her unhealthy whims and fancies, her hypochondriac ideas, were vanishing under her son's influence. 1994 H. Burton i. vi. 57 I have subtle little pains in my back. I have become positively hypochondriac. the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > melancholic 1599 R. Surflet tr. A. Du Laurens 125 The Hypochondriake melancholike [Fr. l'hypochondriaque]..[is] a drie and hote distemperature of Mesenterium, the liuer and spleene. 1615 H. Crooke 416 An honest Citizen..was sicke or indisposed with a hypochondriake melancholy for 3. yeares. 1669 (Royal Soc.) 4 1089 The Causes of the Hysterick and Hypochondriack Passions. 1679 J. Goodman iii. iii. 301 That Hypochondriack sourness and austerity, which yet some place a great deal of Religion in. 1753 J. Rutty Spiritual Diary 17 Dec. in J. Boswell (1791) II. 155 An hypochondriack obnubilation from wind and indigestion. 1796 E. Darwin II. 131 The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasurable sensation. 1822 J. M. Good III. 81 Melancholy..often assumes many of the symptoms that essentially appertain to the hypochondriac disease. 1903 10 Oct. 588/1 A person who is constantly fearful of his health, always taking medicine or consulting his physician, magnifies more and more the suspected symptoms of disease in his body until finally a state of actual hypochondriac melancholia develops. 1965 W. G. Klopfer in B. B. Wolman 830/2 Hypochondriac symptoms commonly occur and may, if no discernible cause for the symptom is found, be due to exaggerated needs for attention and other psychological desires. 2007 E. Habermeyer et al. in A. Felthous & H. Sass II. iii. 48 Suicidality is typical of..hypochondriac depression and depression with delusions and/or hallucinations. 3. the world > life > the body > internal organs > cavities occupied by internal organs > [noun] > abdomen > hypochondrium the world > life > the body > internal organs > cavities occupied by internal organs > [adjective] > abdomen > hypochondrium 1656 T. Chamberlayne ii. 61 Distention of the Hypochondriack parts, by reason of the reflux of the menstruous blood to the greater vessels. 1680 R. Couch 55 She..was seized with an intollerable Tortura Ventriculi, or tearing pain in her stomach, accompanied with Hypochondriack Vapours. 1695 W. Westmacott 216 The Tartarous parts of the Wine..do fix Humours about the Hypochondriack Regions. 1793 T. Beddoes 70 Pain in the breast and left hypochondriac region. 1852 J. H. Bennett 46 The treatment has consisted of..remedies to check the diarrhœa, and occasional leeches and blisters to alleviate the hypochondriac pain. 1879 9 46 An exploratory puncture having been made into the hypochondriac swelling [etc.]. 1961 30 Dec. 1781/1 Thalassaemia may often be implicated in cases of left hypochondriac pain. 2005 M. Maresca in M. Pappagallo iii. xxxiii. 495/2 True visceral pain owing to diseases of the biliary tract is felt in the right hypochondriac and epigastric regions. 1889 Hypochondriac,..2. In entom., of or pertaining to the hypochondria, or basal ventral plates of the abdomen: as, the hypochondriac segment. B. n.the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > melancholia 1599 R. Surflet tr. A. Du Laurens 126 The other part where the Hypochondriake [Fr. l'hypochondriaque] breedeth, is the liver. 1671 J. Dryden iv. 58 I know what you would say, That it is Melancholy; a Tincture of the Hypochondriaque you mean. 1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Hypochondriac, a windy melancholy bred in the hypochondria, from whence a black phlegm arises that infects and troubles the mind. 1698 W. Chilcot iii. 52 By an hypocondriack, or some other disease. 1738 J. Swift p. li Abbreviations exquisitely refined; as..Hypps, or Hippo, for Hypocondriacks. 1784 N. Culpeper (new ed.) 101 The liver, gall and spleen, and the diseases that arise from them, as the jaundice and hypochondriac. 1796 C. Burney I. 383 This performer comes to entertain and solace me in my doleful hypochondriacs. the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > melancholia > person 1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus 33 Those melancholly Hypochondriachs [Fr. ces melancholiques & hypochondriaques]..whose fantasies, how extravagant soever..must never be opposed. 1677 T. D'Urfey i. 1 Thou art a Melancholly Fellow, a kind of Hypocondriack, as I am told. 1784 A. Booth 118 All hepatic, splenetic, pulmoniac persons, and hypocondriacs, would soon have enough of it. 1791 J. Boswell anno 1729 I. 28 But let not little men triumph upon knowing that Johnson was an Hypochondriack. 1803 T. Beddoes III. ix. 184 The hysterical, the hypochondriac, very generally agree in complaining of a decrease of memory. 1873 A. Flint (ed. 4) 789 The hypochondriac is the victim of a delusion with respect to his pathological condition. 1888 R. Roose i. xv. 348 The hypochondriac is always dwelling upon his symptoms, and constantly talks about his health. 1916 M. H. Fussell V. xii. 781 Hypochondria is more likely to be confounded with neurasthenia [than with hysteria], but as the hypochondriac believes he is ill and constantly talks about his symptoms, and hysteriacs also..complain of various symptoms there may be confusion. 1932 H. Walpole iv. v. 693 She was no hypochondriac, but from a kind of outside consideration she summoned her forces. Had she a headache? Did her eyes smart? How was her throat? 1955 Apr. 104/3 He was a hypochondriac and a crank, chronically dyspeptic and unamiable. 1973 27 Sept. 15/1 George S. Kaufman..was..an obsessive card player, compulsive womanizer, necrophobe, hypochondriac. 2011 H. Pool 172 To be fair, I am a complete hypochondriac. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). <  adj.n.1576 |
