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Neurosis n. (pl. neuroses)

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

(Psychiatry) A mental or emotional disorder that affects only part of the personality, and involves less distorted perceptions of reality than a psychosis. As used in medicine, anxiety is a prominent characteristic, and the condition may be accompanied by psychosomatic symptoms. Phobias and compulsive behavior are common varieties.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Neurosis" Quotes from Famous Books

... activity of their twenty-million-horse-power society, Americans ignore tragic motives that would have overshadowed the Middle Ages; and the world learns to regard assassination as a form of hysteria, and death as neurosis, to be treated by a rest-cure. Three hideous political murders, that would have fattened the Eumenides with horror, have thrown scarcely a shadow ...

— The Education of Henry Adams • Henry Adams

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