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histrionic personality disorder

histrionic personality disorder noun: a personality disorder characterized largely by exaggerated emotions, and inappropriate attention-seeking and seductive behavior typically caused by undue amounts of trauma and related stress during childhood.

Noun

histrionic personality disorder (countable and uncountable, plural histrionic personality disorders)

  1. A personality disorder characterized largely by exaggerated emotions, and inappropriate attention-seeking and seductive behavior typically caused by undue amounts of trauma and related stress during childhood.
    • Patients with histrionic personality disorder are sometimes accused of being attention whores.
    Synonyms:
    HPD

histrionic personality disorder meaning in Tamil and Vietnamese

histrionic personality disorder in Tamil

மிகை மெய்ப்பாட்டு ஆளுமைக் கோளாறு, தன்னீர்ப்பு ஆளுமைக் கோளாறு

histrionic personality disorder in Vietnamese

Translations
rối loạn nhân cách kịch tính

Synonyms of histrionic personality disorder

Forms of histrionic personality disorder

pluralhistrionic personality disorders

Questions about histrionic personality disorder

What does histrionic personality disorder mean?
Histrionic personality disorder means a personality disorder characterized largely by exaggerated emotions, and inappropriate attention-seeking and seductive behavior typically caused by undue amounts of trauma and related stress during childhood.
What is histrionic personality disorder in Tamil?
Histrionic personality disorder in Tamil is மிகை மெய்ப்பாட்டு ஆளுமைக் கோளாறு, தன்னீர்ப்பு ஆளுமைக் கோளாறு. See Histrionic personality disorder meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is histrionic personality disorder?
Histrionic personality disorder is a noun.
What is the plural of histrionic personality disorder?
The plural of histrionic personality disorder is histrionic personality disorders.

Words near histrionic personality disorder in the dictionary

  1. histozyme
  2. histozymes
  3. histrelin
  4. histrion
  5. histrionic
  6. histrionic personality disorder
  7. histrionic personality disordered
  8. histrionic personality disorders
  9. histrionical
  10. histrionically
  11. histrionicism

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