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A sudden period of intense anxiety, mounting physiological arousal, fear, stomach problems and discomfort that are associated with a variety of somatic and cognitive symptoms.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- There was a client who was critical of me a few weeks back and it set off a panic attack.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
a sudden attack of fear
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: scare
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fear, fearfulness, fright
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Afrikaans:
paniekaanval
— sudden period of intense anxiety
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Catalan:
atac de pànic
— sudden period of intense anxiety
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Chinese Mandarin:
驚恐發作 /惊恐发作
(jīngkǒng fāzuò)
— sudden period of intense anxiety
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Czech:
záchvat paniky
— sudden period of intense anxiety
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Danish:
panikanfald
— sudden period of intense anxiety
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Dutch:
paniekaanval
— sudden period of intense anxiety
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Finnish:
paniikkikohtaus
— sudden period of intense anxiety
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French:
crise d'angoisse
— sudden period of intense anxiety
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French:
crise de panique
— sudden period of intense anxiety
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German:
Panikattacke
— sudden period of intense anxiety
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German:
Panikanfall
— sudden period of intense anxiety
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Greek:
κρίση πανικού
(krísi panikoú)
— sudden period of intense anxiety
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Hungarian:
pánikroham
— sudden period of intense anxiety
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Icelandic:
felmtursröskun
— sudden period of intense anxiety
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Italian:
attacco di panico
— sudden period of intense anxiety
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Japanese:
パニック発作
(panikku-hossa)
— sudden period of intense anxiety
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Kazakh:
үрей шабуыл
(ürei şabuyl)
— sudden period of intense anxiety
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Norwegian Bokmål:
panikkanfall
— sudden period of intense anxiety
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
panikkanfall
— sudden period of intense anxiety
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Polish:
atak paniki
— sudden period of intense anxiety
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Portuguese:
ataque de pânico m crise de pânico
— sudden period of intense anxiety
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Romanian:
atac de panică
— sudden period of intense anxiety
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Russian:
паниче́ская ата́ка
(paničéskaja atáka)
— sudden period of intense anxiety
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Spanish:
ataque de pánico
— sudden period of intense anxiety
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Swedish:
panikattack
— sudden period of intense anxiety
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Turkish:
panik atak
— sudden period of intense anxiety
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Ukrainian:
пані́чна ата́ка
(paníčna atáka)
— sudden period of intense anxiety
