noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Initialism of post-traumatic stress disorder. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable

   "I read that parents suffering from PTSD are more likely to hit their children."

2. 2
   an anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as survivor guilt, reliving the trauma in dreams, numbness and lack of involvement with reality, or recurrent thoughts and images wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

post traumatic stress disorderpost-traumatic stress disorderposttraumatic stress disorderposttraumatic stress disorder

Example

More examples

"Sami's PTSD eventually went away."

Related phrases

C-PTSDpost traumatic stress disorder

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.