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Meanings of neurosis in English
A mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction.
Usage of neurosis in English
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In practice, neurosis is always associated with some kind of wrong use.
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As usual, Gurney was exactly on time-lessa virtue than a neurosis.
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Apparently she had lost her fear of trees by channeling another neurosis.
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These include phobias, depression, mania, obsessive-compulsive disorders, and some forms of neurosis.
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Maisie's mind couldn't bear the reality, so it escaped into a neurosis.
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It is the turning-point of the entire conception of the neurosis.
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So it was really an exploration of Larry's neurosis, Hines said.
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The other factors are merely those which play their part in any neurosis.
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We're all in favor of citizens with a neurosis against murder.
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Out of that maladaptation and the discontent and rebellion will arise her neurosis.
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Epstein's views reflect a wider neurosis about the meaning of feminism.
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He was merely the victim of a type of land neurosis.
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The test, upon his taking it, showed only a mild neurosis.
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If this pattern of regression persists and prevails, a narcissistic neurosis is formed.
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You'd be surprised how many people experience some form of neurosis or psychosis.
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But hating Barack Obama or George W. Bush is a neurosis.
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