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panic

noun affright, agitation, alarm, anxiety, awe, confusedness, confusion, consternation, cowardice, discomposure, disorder, disquietude, disturbance, dread, fear, fearfulness, flutter, frenzy, fright, great fear, horror, hysteria, hystericalness, inquietude, irrational terror, nervousness, outcry, overpowering fright, pandemonium, pavor, perturbance, perturbation, phobia, sheer terror, stampede, state of terror, sudden fear, terror, trepidation, turmoil, unreasoning fear
Associated concepts: heat of passion, manslaughter, temmorary insanity

See also: fear, fright, frighten, pandemonium, phobia, trepidation

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Sixty-five percent of patients reported being essentially symptom-free; they weren't panicking, weren't worried about panicking, and had no significant agoraphobia.

Nocturnal panic responds to cognitive-behavioral therapy. (Physoiologic Response Lessens at 9 Months)

Spores and errant airplanes may haunt the average American, but that doesn't mean he's panicking.

Panic attacks: Drawing the thin line between caution and hysteria after September 11

The last thing we want to see is people panicking over something that might be completely unrelated to Y2K.