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Definition of Neurotically
1. Adverb. In a neurotic manner. "They are finely, not to say neurotically adjusted"
Definition of Neurotically
1. Adverb. In a neurotic manner. ¹
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Definition of Neurotically
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Neurotically
Literary usage of Neurotically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Neurotic Constitution: Outlines of a Comparative Individualistic by Alfred Adler (1917)
"In the neurotically disposed child, the compensatory craving for security heightened
by the feeling of uncertainty is responsible, ..."
2. Psychoanalysis and behavior by André Tridon (1920)
"Instead of discouraging us and of causing us to say neurotically: "What can I do
... We shall not allow ourselves to use them neurotically as scapegoats. ..."
3. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1908)
"In many cases, moreover, the parental alcoholics are themselves degenerates
neurotically, and the drink-habit is only a symptom of their disease, ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1893)
"Reconstructing the pathological history of the patient, it was found that his
hereditary antecedents were surcharged neurotically. He was a somnambulist in ..."
5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1916)
"Favor nocturnus doubtless represents low level. reactions, which Hall attributes
to the insufficient resistance on the part of a neurotically disposed child ..."
6. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"l The spear is less prominent, but every item and detail of its thrust is sometimes
exquisitely if not neurotically felt. With some the thorns are the apex ..."
7. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society by Linnean Society of London (1873)
"... the face apo- neurotically and joins the muscle of the opposite side.
The anterior second portion, naso-labialis, or premaxillary muscle, ..."
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