单词 | neurosis |
释义 | neurosis/ˌnjʊəˈrəʊsɪs![]() noun (plural neuroses /ˌnjʊəˈrəʊsiːz/) Medicine 1A relatively mild mental illness that is not caused by organic disease, involving symptoms of stress (depression, anxiety, obsessive behaviour, hypochondria) but not a radical loss of touch with reality: Freud’s two-stage account of neurosis [count noun]: psychoses, neuroses, and personality disorders...
Synonyms mental illness, mental disorder, psychological disorder, mental disturbance, mental derangement, mental instability, psychological maladjustment, psychoneurosis, psychopathy; obsession, phobia, fixation rare neuroticism 1.1(In non-technical use) excessive and irrational anxiety or obsession: too much neurosis about a child’s progress is unproductive...
OriginMid 18th century: modern Latin, from neuro- 'of nerves' + -osis. Rhymes |
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