Meaning | A mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction. |
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Synonyms | neuroticism, psychoneurosis |
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Narrower | anxiety neurosis | Characterized by diffuse anxiety and often somatic manifestations of fear |
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hysteria, hysterical neurosis | neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions |
Broader | mental disorder, mental disturbance, disturbance, psychological disorder, folie | (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion |
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Spanish | neurosis, psiconeurosis |
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Catalan | neurosi, psiconeurosis |
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Adjectives | neurotic | affected with emotional disorder |
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neurotic | characteristic of or affected by neurosis |