intrusive thoughts
B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Unwanted, distressing thoughts or images that enter the mind involuntarily and are hard to dismiss.
She reported intrusive thoughts of harming the baby that she found deeply frightening.
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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