Definitions for neurosis

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neurosis neu·ro·sis

Spelling: [noo-roh-sis, nyoo-]

IPA: /nʊˈroʊ sɪs, nyʊ-/

Neurosis is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 273 anagrams from letters in neurosis (einorssu).

Definitions for neurosis

noun

1. Also called psychoneurosis. a functional disorder in which feelings of anxiety, obsessional thoughts, compulsive acts, and physical complaints without objective evidence of disease, in various degrees and patterns, dominate the personality.
2. a relatively mild personality disorder typified by excessive anxiety or indecision and a degree of social or interpersonal maladjustment.

Origin of neurosis

From New Latin, dating back to 1770-80; See origin at neur-, -osis

Examples for neurosis

Is this neurosis, narcissism, or the farsighted wisdom that allows a fellow to win three hundred games?

Some forms of neurosis appear to be limited to certain ethnic groups.

How did we gain our knowledge of these psychological factors in the case of neurosis?

Was this, then, some special case of phthisis complicated by neurosis?

In both sexes there is a tendency to neurosis and degeneration.

And then it dawned upon her of what use her mother's neurosis was.

This conception may be described as the sexual theory of the neurosis.

How do you tell the difference between aesthetic discipline and neurosis?

The neurosis is merely a wrong attitude to life and its problems.

Whether it ultimately takes aesthetic discipline or neurosis to get to that point, it's hard to say.