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NEUROSIS
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Irregular inflected form: neuroses
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction
Synonyms:
neurosis; neuroticism; psychoneurosis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("neurosis" is a kind of...):
disturbance; folie; mental disorder; mental disturbance; psychological disorder ((psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "neurosis"):
hysteria; hysterical neurosis (neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions)
anxiety neurosis (characterized by diffuse anxiety and often somatic manifestations of fear)
Derivation:
neurotic (affected with emotional disorder)
neurotic (characteristic of or affected by neurosis)
