neurosis

From neuro- +‎ -osis.

• IPA^(key): njʊəˈrəʊsɪs

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• Rhymes: -əʊsɪs

neurosis (countable and uncountable, plural neuroses)

1. (pathology) 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.
   • 1881, American journal of obstetrics and diseases of women and children: Volume 14:

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

   • 1952, D. Maurice Allan, “Towards a Natural Teleology”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 49, number 13, →DOI:

     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.”

• The term is no longer part of mainstream psychiatric terminology in the United States,^[1] having been removed from the DSM in 1980, when its editors decided to provide descriptions of behavior rather than of hidden psychological mechanisms.^[2][3] It may still be found in texts on psychology and philosophy.^[4][5]

• psychoneurosis (dated)

• physioneurosis

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• IPA^(key): /neuˈɾosis/ [neu̯ˈɾo.sis]
• Rhymes: -osis
• Syllabification: neu‧ro‧sis

neurosis f (plural neurosis)

1. neurosis

• “neurosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024