Definitions for neuroses

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neuroses neu·ro·sis

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

IPA: /nʊˈroʊ sɪs, nyʊ-/

Neuroses 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 194 anagrams from letters in neuroses (eenorssu).

Definitions for neuroses

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 neuroses

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

Examples for neuroses

Our insight into the causation of the neuroses has therefore been amplified.

So much I wanted to tell you about symptom development in the neuroses.

From a novel of Brooklyn neuroses to what happens when evangelicals take over an Alaskan national park.

He would always say that a good relationship is just a pairing of neuroses.

That will not do for us, since we have taken the dream as preparation for the study of the neuroses.

But that is due to the relation which the phenomena of the dream have to those of the neuroses.

Would you use the same expression to describe male writers who suffer from neuroses or mental illnesses?

The amount is not influenced by neuroses or circulatory disturbances.

I have already shown it to you in the two cases of neuroses.

neuroses and psychoses are peculiarly frequent in childhood and youth.