Definition of "hypochondriacs" [hypochondriacs]

• Plural form of hypochondriac. (noun)

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• "We all know people we classify as hypochondriacs: they spend all their time focusing on what’s wrong with them, even though nothing ever is and even though there’s no benefit, as when you check your blood pressure every hour."
• "Naturally, if Mr. Merriam is elected, his official cabinet will be composed of statesmen of similar character and ideals, just as Mahatma Sinclair must be expected to surround himself with a staff of political and social hypochondriacs like himself."
• "It is highly biased by the people who go to doctors; the ill, the hypochondriacs and the elderly."