anxiety neurosis

noun

, Psychiatry.

1. a neurotic disorder characterized by pervasive anxiety.

anxiety neurosis

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of anxiety neurosis¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

Stekel,41 one of Freud's pupils, in an elaborate monograph, also lays stress on the sexual factor of the anxiety-neurosis.

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On innumerable occasions we have learned that anxiety neurosis vanishes when the sexual misuse is abandoned.

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I shall tell you then that we distinguish three pure forms of true neuroses: neurasthenia, anxiety neurosis and hypochondria.

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She was tense and nervous, tied in the emotional knots of an anxiety neurosis.

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