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survivor syndrome

noun

, Psychiatry.
  1. a characteristic group of symptoms, including recurrent images of death, depression, persistent anxiety, and emotional numbness, occurring in survivors of disaster.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of survivor syndrome1

First recorded in 1965–70

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