psychosomatic
adjectiveUK /ˌsaɪ.kəʊ.səˈmæt.ɪk/
US /ˌsaɪ.koʊ.səˈmæt̬.ɪk/
A psychosomatic feeling is a real body feeling caused by your mind, like a tummy ache when you are worried.
Her headache was psychosomatic, so it went away once she stopped worrying about the test.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. Relating to the connection between the mind and the body.
Doctors study psychosomatic links to understand how feelings affect health.
3. Describing an illness with real physical symptoms that has no clear physical cause.
The doctor said his stomach pain was psychosomatic and not caused by a germ.
4. Caused by emotional stress rather than by a physical problem.
Her psychosomatic cough appeared only on days she felt nervous.