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neu•ro•sis neu-ro-sis | noo'roses |
noun (plural neuroses | -,sēz |)
a mental condition that is not caused by organic disease, involving symptoms of stress (depression, anxiety, obsessive behaviour, hypochondria) but not a radical loss of touch with reality. Compare with psychosis:
Freud's two-stage account of neurosis | [count noun] : psychoses, neuroses, and personality disorders.