anxiety neurosis

American  

noun

Psychiatry.

1. a neurotic disorder characterized by pervasive anxiety.

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anxiety neurosis British  

noun

1. a relatively mild form of mental illness characterized by extreme distress and agitation, often occurring without any obvious cause

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Etymology

Origin of anxiety neurosis

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

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anxiety neurosis

Then, as his own lawyer, he asked Dr. Van Pelt: Is it not true that an anxiety neurosis such as Diana's could have come from an unhappy love affair?

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"There's an anxiety neurosis abroad in the land," FAA Administrator Najeeb Halaby said darkly, "and that complicates the noise-abatement problem."

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Freud dealt with noise irritation as a symptom of anxiety neurosis "undoubtedly explicable on the basis of the close inborn connection between auditory impressions and fright."

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Soon most motorists develop what Dr. Fabing calls an "anxiety neurosis in miniature," mainly centred in an uncertain right foot, but with other noticeable effects.

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A striking amount of expectant fear is characteristic of a nervous condition which I have named "anxiety neurosis," and which I group with the true neuroses.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud