neurosis
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8.3
- noun
- /nʊˈroʊsɪs/
- Specialized
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neurosis
- The therapist explained that his client's neurosis stemmed from long-standing anxiety about public speaking.
- traumatic neurosis
- anxiety neurosis
- patient's neurosis
Abandonment neurosis is how it can be translated.
- Abandonment neurosis is how it can be translated.
- And this is the ultimate anxiety and and neurosis of the actor.
- I know it did mine because it's kind of informed by neurosis and trauma to a large degree.
- This is the height of my neurosis where I I don't really like watching me perform.
- And I'm not saying have a neurosis about it.
- So you can't be a newspaper reporter if you have any neuroses whatsoever about the act of writing.
- And, but I also remember a kind of constant anxiousness, anxiety neurosis that was present.
- I think Oscar was a bit more like he had more neuroses going on.
- And then N is, yeah, neurotic, neuroticness, neuroses, it's something along those lines.
- And this is where I talk about the replacement neurosis.
- So yeah, kind of a interesting correlation between intelligence and neurosis.
- My question is on the role of neuroticism and neurosis in society, specifically in a toxic culture.
- Or maybe the enabler themself isn't such a great parent and is projecting their own fears and neuroses into your own story.
Examples
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I myself witnessed some form of mass neurosis in East Proctor.
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I have a patient in her 20s, typical anxiety neurosis.
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One specifically noted that "sleep neurosis" was on the rise in the United States.
Academic text (1996) -
Was that part of her neurosis, that the whole world had to love her?
Fiction book (1996) -
We're gonna get you out of your neurosis.
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Keep your neurosis to yourself until you can share it with a qualified mental health professional.
Fiction book (1993) -
Do you think all neurosis is of exclusively sexual origin?
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My question is on the role of neuroticism and neurosis in society, specifically in a toxic culture.
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An obvious anxiety neurosis... and amnesia suppression.
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They want a kind of vague conspiracy in which they can project their own little neuroses and problems.
Synonyms
A mild long-lasting mental problem that causes ongoing worry or sadness
Antonyms
Compounds
- Archaic
1
9.9
A condition where a person has sudden strong emotions and temporary loss of movement or feeling
- Archaic
Strong emotional problems soldiers get after war that cause worry and bad dreams
- Archaic
A long-lasting feeling of being detached from yourself and from who you are, often with numb emotions
- Archaic
A strong, unreasonable fear of a specific thing or situation that causes great worry
How Severe
Surface Forms
Morphology
neurosis = neuro (opaque) = neur + osis
The word is built from the combining form neuro- and the suffix -osis, but its modern medical meaning is not directly predictable from those parts for an average B1 learner.
Etymology
Neurosis comes from the Greek parts neuro- meaning 'nerve' and -osis meaning 'condition'. So, a neurosis is like a 'condition of the nerves' and today it means a mental or emotional trouble that does not make someone lose touch with reality.