All 3 Uses of
hypochondria
in
Jane Eyre
- I exclaimed, seized with hypochondriac foreboding.†
p. 320.2 *hypochondriac = someone who worries excessively about imaginary, personal illnesses
- This is hypochondria, Jane.†
p. 322.6hypochondria = a psychological disorder characterized by excessive worry about imaginary, personal illnesses
- I think those day visions were not dark: there was a pleasurable illumination in your eye occasionally, a soft excitement in your aspect, which told of no bitter, bilious, hypochondriac brooding: your look revealed rather the sweet musings of youth when its spirit follows on willing wings the flight of Hope up and on to an ideal heaven.†
p. 360.9hypochondriac = someone who worries excessively about imaginary, personal illnesses