Neurosis

Noun

 * 1)  A mental disorder, less severe than psychosis, marked by anxiety or fear
 * 2) * Usage note: This term is no longer used medically/professionally.

Derived terms

 * neurotic
 * neuroticism
 * psychoneurosis

Thesaurus
abulia, accident neurosis, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, arteriosclerotic psychosis, association neurosis, battle fatigue, blast neurosis, brain disease, certifiability, combat fatigue, compensation neurosis, compulsion neurosis, conversion hysteria, conversion neurosis, crack-up, dementia paralytica, dipsomania, drug addiction, emotional disorder, emotional instability, expectation neurosis, fixation neurosis, folie du doute, frayed nerves, frazzled nerves, fright neurosis, functional nervous disorder, functional psychosis, general paralysis, general paresis, homosexual neurosis, hypochondria, hypochondriasis, hysteria, insanity, jangled nerves, maladjustment, manic-depressive psychosis, melancholia, mental disorder, mental illness, metabolic psychosis, moral insanity, nervous breakdown, nervous disorder, nervous prostration, neurasthenia, neuroticism, obsessional neurosis, occupational neurosis, organic psychosis, paralytic dementia, paranoia, pathological drunkenness, pathoneurosis, personality disorder, phobia, presenile dementia, prison psychosis, problems in living, psychasthenia, psychoneurosis, psychoneurotic disorder, psychopathia, psychopathia martialis, psychopathia sexualis, psychopathic condition, psychopathic personality, psychopathy, psychosis, raw nerves, reaction, regression neurosis, schizophrenia, senile dementia, senile psychosis, senility, sexual pathology, shattered nerves, shell shock, situational neurosis, situational psychosis, social maladjustment, syphilitic paresis, toxic psychosis, twanging nerves, war neurosis

Etymology
neuro- + -osis

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 神經症, 神经症
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: neurose, zenuwziekte
 * Esperanto: neŭrozo
 * Finnish:
 * French: névrose


 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 神経症, ノイローゼ
 * Russian: невроз
 * Spanish:

Anagrams

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