Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An emotional state characterized by anxiety, depression, or unease.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In pathology, impatience under affliction; a state of dissatisfaction, restlessness, fidgeting, or inquietude.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) Impatience under affliction; morbid restlessness; dissatisfaction; the fidgets.

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  • noun A state of feeling unwell or unhappy; a feeling of emotional and mental discomfort and suffering from restlessness, malaise, depression or anxiety.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun abnormal depression and discontent

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[New Latin, from Greek dusphoriā, distress, from dusphoros, hard to bear : dus-, dys- + -phoros, -phorous.]

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From Ancient Greek δυσφορία (dusphoria, "excessive pain"), from δύσφορος (dusphoros, "grievous"), from δυσ- (dus-, "bad") + φέρω (phero, "I bear, carry").

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Examples

  • Gender identity disorder (GID)/gender dysphoria is a little known but much misunderstood congenital intersex condition, which is clinically diagnosable and treatable.

    Sugar and spice and all things neurobiological 2009

  • Gender identity disorder (GID)/gender dysphoria is a little known but much misunderstood congenital intersex condition, which is clinically diagnosable and treatable.

    Sugar and spice and all things neurobiological 2009

  • If people were aware that gender dysphoria is experienced by at least 1 in 500 people, transgenderism would increasingly be seen for what it is – a natural variation in gendering.

    A rose by any other name 2008

  • If people were aware that gender dysphoria is experienced by at least 1 in 500 people, transgenderism would increasingly be seen for what it is – a natural variation in gendering.

    APA Task Force Report underreports the prevalence of gender identity disorder 2008

  • When associated with irritability, this mood combination is termed dysphoria 105.

    The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993

  • However, the exact meaning of the word dysphoria seems to be rather vague, and its use is often confusing.

    Signal 46 2009

  • On one of his file cabinets, he’s tacked up a flyer from a British parents’ advocacy group that reads: “Gender dysphoria is increasingly understood … as having biological origins,” and describes “small parts of the brain” as “progressing along different pathways.”

    A Boy's Life 2008

  • Furthermore, by maintaining the illusion that gender dysphoria is incredibly rare, gender-repartists such as Zucker can assure parents that it’s extremely unlikely their gender-variant child will become “transsexual” and suggest that all the child needs is some minor gender-repairs.

    APA Task Force Report underreports the prevalence of gender identity disorder 2008

  • Furthermore, by maintaining the illusion that gender dysphoria is incredibly rare, gender-repartists such as Zucker can assure parents that it’s extremely unlikely their gender-variant child will become “transsexual” and suggest that all the child needs is some minor gender-repairs.

    A rose by any other name 2008

  • On one of his file cabinets, he’s tacked up a flyer from a British parents’ advocacy group that reads: “Gender dysphoria is increasingly understood … as having biological origins,” and describes “small parts of the brain” as “progressing along different pathways.”

    A Boy's Life 2008

  • Everything could have been deemed by taking one look at my body because society assumes that’s what we’re bred and born to do,” he said of the gender dysphoria — a psychology term to describe the emotional effects a person experiences when there’s a disconnect between their gender identity and biological sex — he endured throughout Acts 1 and 2.

    Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina's Lachlan Watson Talks Life Inside 'The Gender Void' MTV 2018

  • Recruitment information with a link to the survey was placed on three websites where parents and professionals had been observed to describe what seemed to be a sudden or rapid onset of gender dysphoria (4thwavenow, transgender trend, and youthtranscriticalprofessionals), although the specific terminology “rapid onset gender dysphoria” did not appear on these websites until the recruitment information using that term was first posted on the sites.

    Parent reports of adolescents and young adults perceived to show signs of a rapid onset of gender dysphoria Lisa Littman 2023

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