dysmorphia
C2CEFR level
80/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A preoccupying and distressing belief that some aspect of one's appearance is grossly defective, though it appears normal to others.
His body dysmorphia fixated on an imagined asymmetry of his nose, driving repeated requests for surgery.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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