histrionic personality disorder

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

A personality disorder characterized largely by exaggerated emotions, and inappropriate attention-seeking and seductive behavior typically caused by undue amounts of trauma and related stress during childhood.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Españoltrastorno histriónico de la personalidad

Françaistrouble de la personnalité histrionique

Deutschhistrionische Persönlichkeitsstörung

1 more languages

Türkçehistriyonik kişilik bozukluğu

Examples

“Patients with histrionic personality disorder are sometimes accused of being attention whores.”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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See also

Histrionically histrionicism histrionicity histrionicotoxin Histrionics histrionism

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