Hangup - English meaning

noun

A large solid piece of hard material, especially rock, stone, or wood, typically with flat surfaces on each side.

Usage examples:

A block of marble

verb

Make the movement or flow in (a passage, pipe, road, etc.) difficult or impossible.

Usage examples:

The narrow roads were blocked by cars

verb

Obstruct

adjective

Consisting of many different and connected parts.

Usage examples:

A complex network of water channels

noun

A group or system of different things that are linked in a close or complicated way; a network.

Usage examples:

A complex of mountain roads

verb

Make (an atom or compound) form a complex with another.

Usage examples:

The dna was complexed with the nuclear extract

noun

The state or condition of being difficult.

Usage examples:

Guy had no difficulty in making friends

noun

The fact of not being easy, or of being hard to do or understand

Usage examples:

[ u ] he has some difficulty hearing people when they speak softly., [ c usually pl ] in 1986 he ex…

noun

An obsessive interest in or feeling about someone or something.

Usage examples:

Our fixation with diet and fitness

noun

The state of being unable to stop thinking about something or someone, or an unnaturally strong interest in something or someone

Usage examples:

Liz has a fixation with food., a mother fixation

noun

A feeling that makes one self-conscious and unable to act in a relaxed and natural way.

Usage examples:

The children, at first shy, soon lost their inhibitions

noun

An inability to act naturally, esp. because of a lack of confidence

noun

Mental illness marked by periods of great excitement or euphoria, delusions, and overactivity.

Usage examples:

Many people suffering from mania do not think anything is wrong

combining form

Denoting a specified type of mental abnormality or obsession.

Usage examples:

Kleptomania

noun

A unusually strong and continuing interest in an activity or subject

Usage examples:

He was surprised by his wife’s sudden mania for exercise.

noun

A relatively mild mental illness that is not caused by organic disease, involving symptoms of stress (depression, anxiety, obsessive behaviour, hypochondria) but not a radical loss of touch with reality.

Usage examples:

Freud's two-stage account of neurosis

noun

The state of being obsessed with someone or something.

Usage examples:

She cared for him with a devotion bordering on obsession

noun

An extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something.

Usage examples:

She suffered from a phobia about birds

combining form

Extreme or irrational fear or dislike of a specified thing or group.

Usage examples:

Arachnophobia

noun

The state or condition of being preoccupied or engrossed with something.

Usage examples:

He began to overcome his preoccupation with germs

noun

The thing you think about most

Usage examples:

[ u ] his preoccupation with sports is affecting his grades.

noun

An object that one need not, cannot, or does not wish to give a specific name to.

Usage examples:

Look at that metal rail thing over there

A separate and self-contained entity

noun

A device, product, or part of nature that is not named

Usage examples:

There’s a new thing that seals plastic bags., there are some nice things in the stores on sale righ…