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A cyberchondriac is a person who keeps falling into internet health-fear: they read about illnesses online and become sure they have something serious. The short line you may see describes the fear itself — that fear is cyberchondria. This word, with the person-ending, names the one who has it, the same way hypochondriac names a person with hypochondria. Newspapers sometimes use it with a little smile, which can feel : the person is often , not silly. Though actually, googling a symptom once does not make you this. Use the word carefully, or talk about the anxiety instead of labelling the student.
網路疑病症患者
組成Blend of cyber- + hypochondriac (or cyberchondria + -ac). cyber- comes from cybernetic, from Ancient Greek kubernētikós. hypochondriac is the person-word for someone with hypochondria; -ac here marks “a person with that condition.”
同家族的字
- hypochondriacthe older person-word this was blended with
- cyberchondriathe fear or habit the person has
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cyberchondriacnoun/ˌsaɪbəˈkɒndɹɪæk/
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human-sciencespsychologysciencesA hypochondriac (“person with an excessive preoccupation or worry about having a serious illness”) who researches their potential medical condition on the Internet.
- Doctors are on the alert for a new kind of victim: the cyberchondriac. With so much health information now on the Internet, thousands of people are using their computers to try to match symptoms with diseases.
- The growth of the Internet—arguably the fastest-growing new technology in history—has generated explosive growth of people who search the Web for healthcare information related to specific diseases. We call these people "cyberchondriacs." […] The diseases that generate the greatest use of the Web are depression (19 percent of cyberchondriacs), allergies or sinus (16 percent), cancer (15 percent), bipolar disorder (14 percent), arthritis or rheumatism (10 percent), high blood pressure (10 percent), migraine (9 percent), anxiety disorder (9 percent), heart disease (8 percent) and sleep disorders (8 percent).
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。