单词 | mothersickness |
释义 | mothersicknessn. 1. The state or condition of pining for one's mother. Cf. mothersick adj. 2. Now rare. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1768 |
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