hypochondriac
noun
[ hʌɪpə(ʊ)ˈkɒndrɪak ]
• a person who is abnormally anxious about their health.
Similar:
valetudinarian,
valetudinary,
neurotic,
malade imaginaire,
melancholico,
hypochondriast,
malingering,
health-obsessed,
obsessed with one's health,
preoccupied with ill health,
anxious about one's health,
hypochondriacal,
hypochondric,
hypochondriac
adjective
• another term for hypochondriacal.
Origin:
late 16th century: coined in French from Greek hupokhondriakos, from hupokhondria (see hypochondria).
