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adjective

Neurotic adj.

Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; nervous; as, a neurotic disease.

Useful in disorders of, or affecting, the nerves.

Of or pertaining to neurosis (2); characteristic of neurosis (2); caused by neurosis (2).

noun

Neurotic n.

A disease seated in the nerves.

(Med.) Any toxic agent whose action is mainly directed to the great nerve centers. Note: Neurotics as a class include all those poisons whose main action is upon the brain and spinal cord. They may be divided into three orders: (a) Cerebral neurotics, or those which affect the brain only. (b) Spinal neurotics, or tetanics, those which affect the spinal cord. (c) Cerebro-spinal neurotics, or those which affect both brain and spinal cord.

A person afflicted with a neurosis (2).

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Etymology of 'Neurotic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Neurotic" Quotes from Famous Books

... snapped Bordman, "you're all wrong. I'm not neurotic! I'm not. I'm annoyed. I'll get hopelessly behind schedule because of this mess! But ...

— Sand Doom • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... degeneration and disaster, is so altogether removed from the sphere of reason that we ought perhaps to regard it as comparable to those manias which, in former centuries, have assumed other forms more attractive to the neurotic temperament of those days; fortunately, it is a mania which, in the nature of things, is powerless to realize itself, and we need not anticipate that the outcry against small families will have the same results as the ancient ...

— The Task of Social Hygiene • Havelock Ellis

... unsatisfactory, the marriage will certainly be so. We moderns bedeck and bedrape us in all sorts of meretricious togas, till a pair of fine eyes and a dashing manner pass for beauty; but when life tries the metal—when nature applies her inevitable test—the degenerate or neurotic type goes ...

— The Power and the Glory • Grace MacGowan Cooke

... and opposition, which had successively given way before her husband's quiet, masterful good humor, here took the form of a neurotic fatalism. She shook her head ...

— Susy, A Story of the Plains • Bret Harte

... discarded mesmerism altogether and addressed himself to the minds of his patients. He had doubtless a keen intuitive knowledge of human nature and its morbid fancies and he was dealing generally with neurotic temperaments over which he exercised a strong and helpful power of suggestion. His explanation of disease—that it is a wrong belief—becomes grotesque enough when he comes down to detail. This, for example, is his ...

— Modern Religious Cults and Movements • Gaius Glenn Atkins

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