Definition of Neurosis

1. Noun. A mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction.


Definition of Neurosis

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

Definition of Neurosis

1. Noun. (pathology) A mental disorder, less severe than psychosis, marked by anxiety or fear ¹

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Definition of Neurosis

1. a type of emotional disturbance [n -ROSES] : NEUROSAL [adj]

Medical Definition of Neurosis

1. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Nerve. A functional nervous affection or disease, that is, a disease of the nerves without any appreciable change of nerve structure. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Neurosis

neuroscientifically
neuroscientist
neuroscientists
neurosecretion
neurosecretions
neurosecretory
neurosecretory cell
neurosecretory cells
neurosecretory substance
neurosecretory systems
neurosensiferous
neurosensory
neuroserpin
neuroserpins
neuroses
neurosis (current term)
neurosis tarda
neuroskeletal
neuroskeleton
neuroskeletons
neurosomatic
neurosomatic junction
neurospast
neurospasts
neurosphere
neurospheres
neurosplanchnic
neurospongium
neurosporas

Literary usage of Neurosis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Diseases of the nervous system by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"Anxiety neurosis.—The anxiety neurosis was separated from the general group of actual ... The name anxiety neurosis indicates that the symptoms all group ..."

2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1915)
"Tlie following verdicts for tbe inducing of neurosis have been held not to warrant ... $2000—farmer and farm lecturer— traumatic neurosis, complete recovery ..."

3. Therapeutic Gazette (1898)
"Trie above disease of the colon should be termed secretion neurosis and enteritis. ... Secretion neurosis of the colon occurs chiefly in neurotic females ..."

4. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1886)
"Wille regards the purely nervous asthma as a simple reflex neurosis of the trigeminus in its nasal branches, and, according to his observations, ..."

5. Morbid Fears and Compulsions: Their Psychology and Psychoanalytic Treatment by Horace Westlake Frink (1918)
"While in conversion hysteria the symptoms are chiefly somatic, and in the compulsion neurosis a mixture of various emotional and volitional disturbances ..."

6. The Law of Workmen's Compensation, Rules of Procedure, Tables, Forms by William Richard Schneider (1922)
"neurosis.—That the workman, but for the want of sufficient will power, could have thrown off the condition of hysterical blindness and neurosis caused by ..."

7. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Lewellys Franklin Barker, Milton Howard Fussell, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"Suggestibility is a leading feature and the differentiation of hysteria and traumatic neurosis is in many cases impossible. The complex of symptoms does not ..."

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