CONVERSION HYSTERIA

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Meaning:

A mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no apparent cause)

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("conversion hysteria" is a kind of...):

disturbance; folie; mental disorder; mental disturbance; psychological disorder ((psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "conversion hysteria"):

glove anesthesia (a mental disorder involving loss of sensitivity in the hand and wrist)