psychoneurotic
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of psychoneurotic
First recorded in 1900–05; psycho- + neurotic 1
Example Sentences
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Her use of bold 1970s-inspired trippy straight lines and hippie flowers reflects in many ways the push-pull of a scientist undergoing a psychoneurotic fantasy.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 12, 2011
The first line, taken off a pillbox, sets the tone: "Useful in acute and chronic depression, where accompanied by anxiety, insomnia, agitation; psychoneurotic states manifested by tension, apprehension, fatigue."
From Time Magazine Archive
Just three months old, it already has 2,000 psychoneurotic patients, with an overflow of 1,500 more farmed out to private clinics and hospitals.
From Time Magazine Archive
Zion Hospital, this psychoneurotic condition by last week had become so prevalent among service wives that San Francisco psychiatrists were begging county authorities for the use of hospital wards to treat their patients.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is well worth studying and striving for, because nothing is more potent for psychoneurotic conditions, and for neuroses on the borderland of the physical, than which no ailments are more obstinate to treatment.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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