Meaning of NEUROSIS
| Pronunciation: | | nû'rowsis
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| | Definition: | | [n] 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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| | See Also: | | anxiety neurosis, disturbance, folie, hysteria, hysterical neurosis, mental disorder, mental disturbance, psychological disorder | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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| | Definition: | | This is a defense response exhibited as maladaptive emotional states. Neurosis results from unresolved conflicts. The neurotic individual usually does not recognize the symptoms and the underlying conflicts. |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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