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a person who is often or always worried about being ill
My brother is a real hypochondriac. Every time he reads about some new disease, he thinks he has it.
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Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2023
Over roughly nine months of observation, 268 hypochondriacs and 1,761 people without hypochondriasis died.
—Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2023
Vulture, 22 Apr. 2022
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Noun
The hypochondriacs died about five years younger on average than those without hypochondriasis.
—Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2023
Over roughly nine months of observation, 268 hypochondriacs and 1,761 people without hypochondriasis died.
—Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2023
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Guesting on Saturday Night Live when everyone had COVID, having a hypochondriac moment on the set of Only Murders in the Building, and refusing adamantly to even attempt a rap with Freestyle Love Supreme.
—Vulture, 22 Apr. 2022
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“Hypochondriac.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hypochondriac. Accessed 6 Oct. 2024.
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