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How did the meaning of hypochondriac change to mean imagined sickness?
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∙ 9y ago
Hypochondria originally meant feelings of melancholy or anxiety, since these were believed to originate in a part of the abdomen called the hypochondrium. Its meaning later changed to mean anxiety about illness.
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