| NOUN | state | psychoneurosis, neurosis, neuroticism | a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction |
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| Meaning | A mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction. | |
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| Synonyms | neurosis, neuroticism | |
| Narrower | anxiety neurosis | Characterized by diffuse anxiety and often somatic manifestations of fear |
| 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 |
| Spanish | neurosis, psiconeurosis | |
| Catalan | neurosi, psiconeurosis | |
| Adjectives | psychoneurotic | affected with emotional disorder |
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