neurosis

[Neu*ro·sis]

If you feel overly anxious and worried, that is a sign of neurosis: a mental illness with no particular cause.

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A functional nervous affection or disease, that is, a disease of the nerves without any appreciable change of nerve structure.

Noun
a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction


n.
A functional nervous affection or disease, that is, a disease of the nerves without any appreciable change of nerve structure.


Neurosis

Neu*ro"sis , n.; pl. Neuroses . [NL., fr. gr. nerve.] (Med.) A functional nervous affection or disease, that is, a disease of the nerves without any appreciable change of nerve structure.

A functional nervous affection or disease, that is, a disease of the nerves without any appreciable change of nerve structure.

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Usage Examples

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

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Other Usage Examples

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.

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