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post-traumatic embitterment disorder

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
post--trau-mat-ic em-bit-ter-men-t dis-or-der
IPA
47
Scrabble Score
33
Letters
11
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A chronic maladaptive response to a severe manifestation of a usual life occurrence shattering a core belief leading to intrusion and on the flip-side disregard for one’s own condition.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Coined by German psychologist and psychiatrist Michael Linden in 2003 (→DOI) together with its German equivalent posttraumatische Verbitterungsstörung.

Usage

Inflected Forms

post-traumatic embitterment disorders (plural) PTED (alternative, initialism) posttraumatic embitterment disorder (alternative) post traumatic embitterment disorder (alternative)

Questions

What does post-traumatic embitterment disorder mean?
A chronic maladaptive response to a severe manifestation of a usual life occurrence shattering a core belief leading to intrusion and on the flip-side disregard for one’s own condition.
Where does post-traumatic embitterment disorder come from?
Coined by German psychologist and psychiatrist Michael Linden in 2003 (→DOI) together with its German equivalent posttraumatische Verbitterungsstörung.

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