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mood-congruent

adjective

C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

Describing psychotic symptoms whose content matches the patient's prevailing mood, such as guilt-laden delusions in depression.

The mood-congruent delusions of worthlessness pointed to a severe depressive episode with psychotic features.

Topic: Advanced English in Medical English

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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