Neurosis

Quick meaning: Neurosis is a noun meaning (dated, pathology; current in psychology and philosophy) A mental disorder, less severe than psychosis, marked by anxiety or fear which differ from normal measures by their intensity, which disorder results from a failure to compromise or properly adjust during the developmental stages of life, between normal human instinctual impulses and the demands of human society.

Meaning

(dated, pathology; current in psychology and philosophy) A mental disorder, less severe than psychosis, marked by anxiety or fear which differ from normal measures by their intensity, which disorder results from a failure to compromise or properly adjust during the developmental stages of life, between normal human instinctual impulses and the demands of human society.

Example Sentences

On inquiry it was found that this neurosis corresponded in time with the oncome of the catamenia.

In the period from Spinoza to the end of the 19th century, the reading of design into nature received such devastating attacks from naturalists to non-naturalists alike that there developed an epistemological neurosis which Von Baer aptly termed “teleophobia.”

Word Forms

• neuroses

Synonyms for neurosis

Depending on context, synonyms include neuroticism, psychoneurosis.

Antonyms for neurosis

Common opposites include physioneurosis.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include neuroticism, psychoneurosis, hysteria, phobia, obsession, compulsion.

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