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HPD

HPD is the initialism of histrionic personality disorder.

Meaning of histrionic personality disorder

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

Questions about HPD

What is HPD the initialism of?
HPD is the initialism of histrionic personality disorder.

Words near HPD in the dictionary

  1. HPA
  2. hpaB
  3. Hpakant
  4. HPAs
  5. HPC
  6. HPD
  7. HPE
  8. HPF
  9. HPFS
  10. HPGP
  11. hph

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