Main Entry: anxiety disorder Function: noun : a psychoneurotic disorder characterized by anxiety unattached to any obvious source and often accompanied by physiologicalmanifestations of fear (as sweating, cardiac disturbances, diarrhea, or vertigo) called also anxiety neurosis,anxiety reaction,anxiety state
anxiety disordern. Any of various disorders in which anxiety is either the primary disturbance or is the result of confronting a feared situation or object; they include obsessive-compulsive disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder.
