neurosis
- 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.
- a relatively mild personality disorder typified by excessive anxiety or indecision and a degree of social or interpersonal maladjustment.
Origin of neurosis
Related Words for neurosis
inhibition, breakdown, psychopathy, abnormality, madness, aberration, derangement, insanity, deviation, phobia, affliction, instability, compulsion, obsession, hysteria, maladjustment, neurastheniaExamples from the Web for neurosis
Contemporary Examples of neurosis
Whether it ultimately takes aesthetic discipline or neurosis to get to that point, it's hard to say.
How do you tell the difference between aesthetic discipline and neurosis?
Is this neurosis, narcissism, or the farsighted wisdom that allows a fellow to win three hundred games?
Historical Examples of neurosis
Was this, then, some special case of phthisis complicated by neurosis?
The Three Cities Trilogy, CompleteEmile Zola
In both sexes there is a tendency to neurosis and degeneration.
The Sexual QuestionAugust Forel
The neurosis is merely a wrong attitude to life and its problems.
PsychoanalysisAndr Tridon
Some forms of neurosis appear to be limited to certain ethnic groups.
The Races of ManJoseph Deniker
How did we gain our knowledge of these psychological factors in the case of neurosis?
Totem and TabooSigmund Freud
neurosis
- a relatively mild mental disorder, characterized by symptoms such as hysteria, anxiety, depression, or obsessive behaviourAlso called: psychoneurosis
Word Origin and History for neurosis
1776, "functional derangement arising from disorders of the nervous system," coined by Scottish physician William Cullen (1710-1790) from Greek neuron "nerve" (see neuro-) + Modern Latin -osis "abnormal condition." Used in a general psychological sense since 1871; clinical use in psychiatry dates from 1923.
neurosis
(nu-rō′sĭs)- A psychological state characterized by excessive anxiety or insecurity, compensated for by various defense mechanisms and lacking evidence of neurologic or other organic disease. No longer used in psychiatric diagnosis.
neurosis
- A psychological state characterized by excessive anxiety or insecurity without evidence of neurologic or other organic disease, sometimes accompanied by defensive or immature behaviors. This term is no longer used in psychiatric diagnosis.