anxiety vs castration anxiety

anxiety and castration anxiety both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
anxiety	Yes	No	No	No
castration anxiety	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, castration anxiety is a hyponym of anxiety; that is, castration anxiety is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than anxiety:

anxiety: (psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic
castration anxiety: (psychoanalysis) anxiety resulting from real or imagined threats to your sexual functions; originally applied only to men but can in principle apply to women

Other hyponyms of anxiety include hypochondria, hypochondriasis, overanxiety, panic, scare, social anxiety.

anxiety (noun)	castration anxiety (noun)
a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune	(psychoanalysis) anxiety resulting from real or imagined threats to your sexual functions; originally applied only to men but can in principle apply to women
(psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic

anxiety vs castration anxiety

anxiety and castration anxiety both are nouns.

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