neurosis

Meaning

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.

Opposite of

physioneurosis

Synonyms

nervous disorder

neuroticism

psychoneurosis

neurotica

nervous breakdown

neurotic disorder

mental depression

sickness from anxiety

Translations

Neurose

neurosis

névrose

nevrosi

neurose

neurosi

νεύρωση

neurosi

nevroz

neurose

zenuwziekte

neuroticisme

psychonévrose

Nervenleiden

Etymology

From neuro- + -sis.