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单词 mothersickness
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mothersicknessn.

Brit. /ˈmʌðəsɪknᵻs/, U.S. /ˈməðərˌsɪknᵻs/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mother n.1, sickness n.
Etymology: < mother n.1 + sickness n., after mothersick adj. In sense 2 after French mal de mère (1818 in work cited in quot. 19931 at sense 2).
1. The state or condition of pining for one's mother. Cf. mothersick adj. 2. Now rare.
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1768 J. Bentham Let. 30 Aug. (1968) I. 133 Qualms of friend-sickness (a Name for a disorder not taken notice of in the Dispensatory but which I formed by analogy from Mother-sickness).
1893 C. M. Yonge Treasure in Marshes xiv. 112 A deadly fit of longing and mother-sickness which made him think seriously of..coming home.
2. Hysteria. Cf. mothersick adj. 1.Apparently an isolated use.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > psychoneurosis > hysteria
mother?c1450
suffocation of the womb, matrix, motherc1550
strangulation of the matrix or womb1601
hysterica passio1603
suffocation (also rising, fit) of the mother1615
hysteric passion1655
tarantism1656
mother-fit1657
rising of the matrix1660
hysteria1757
tarantulism1774
pithiatism1910
mothersickness1993
1993 J. Beizer in S. Nash Home & its Dislocations 265 Among the synonyms given for hysteria by..the Dictionnaire des Sciences Medicales, we find ‘mal de mère’, a term I will first literally translate as ‘mothersickness’.
1993 J. Beizer in S. Nash Home & its Dislocations 266 Nineteenth-century mothersickness, avatar of the ancient wandering womb syndrome, may be defined, like seasickness, as a (metaphorical) variety of motion sickness.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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