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  • noun Plural form of neurosis.

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Examples

  • Over this garden of female neuroses is laid the larger template of American Women in Financial Jeopardy … a topic I’m finding increasingly troubling, gnawing.

    Cheap Thrills 2006

  • Over this garden of female neuroses is laid the larger template of American Women in Financial Jeopardy … a topic I’m finding increasingly troubling, gnawing.

    Cheap Thrills 2006

  • Over this garden of female neuroses is laid the larger template of American Women in Financial Jeopardy … a topic I’m finding increasingly troubling, gnawing.

    Cheap Thrills 2006

  • The other elements of the photo prime most viewers except Elena to project all their Perfect Moment fantasies onto it rather than their neuroses, which is what makes it an ad instead of the therapy session the couple will need after their expectations are not quite met.

    ROMANTIC RESILIENCE: DINNER OR THE DISHES? » Sociological Images 2009

  • "Your neuroses were your identity card," says Agnes Loiseau, editor in chief of the monthly Psychologies.

    Let Them Take Prozac 2008

  • "Blacks do not have obsessive-compulsive neuroses, which is more of a puritanical thing," says Black Psychiatrist Alvin Poussaint.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • But more important than my neuroses is the electricity surrounding ChatRoulette: it reeks of something whose significance we can feel, but haven't fully defined yet.

    social media marketing agency ★★★ Vanksen|Culture-buzz Angela Natividad 2010

  • "Blacks do not have obsessive-compulsive neuroses, which is more of a puritanical thing," says Black Psychiatrist Alvin Poussaint.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • Being able to identify the petty assholes, narcissists, and would-be gatekeepers is half of being a successful academic … and dealing with their neuroses is the other.

    One Stop Thought Shop 2009

  • Lopez: Any form of expression that lacks therapeutic value or doesn't teach you something about yourself, or doesn't help you to rid yourself of some kind of neuroses, is completely useless to me.

    Cynthia Ellis: Tribeca Film Festival Interview: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez. The Sentimental Engine Slayer 2010

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