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Neurosis   /nʊrˈoʊsəs/   Listen
Neurosis

noun
(pl. neuroses)
1.
A mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction.  Synonyms: neuroticism, psychoneurosis.



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"Neurosis" Quotes from Famous Books



... neurography, neuron, lecithin, rete, plexus, neurasthenia, neurasthenic, neurotic, sensorium, funiculus, ganglion, hilum, neurism, innervation, neuration, neuritis, neuropathic, nervine, neuroma, neuropathy, neuroid, neuric, neuricity, aneuria, glioma, neurosis, cinerea, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming

... it hurts my liver to offer the old boy incomprehensible reasons or verbiage like 'compulsion neurosis' when all he wants is to protect me from my own impulses as he protected me from the army. Florence and I delight in him—he comes again next week if possible—but we cannot convey to him the unthinkableness ...
— Greener Than You Think • Ward Moore

... frequently confronted with the question: "Just why does an erotic conflict cause the neurosis? Why not just as well another conflict?" To this the only answer is, "No one asserts that this must be so, but evidently it always is so, in spite of anything that can be said against it. It is, notwithstanding all assurances to the contrary, ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10



Words linked to "Neurosis" :   psychological disorder, mental disturbance, mental disorder, folie, phobic neurosis, disturbance, hysteria, neurotic



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