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anxiety neurosis
noun
, Psychiatry.
- a neurotic disorder characterized by pervasive anxiety.
anxiety neurosis
noun
- a relatively mild form of mental illness characterized by extreme distress and agitation, often occurring without any obvious cause
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Word History and Origins
Origin of anxiety neurosis1
First recorded in 1900–05
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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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