Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or affected with a neurosis. No longer used in psychiatric diagnosis.
- adjective Informal Overanxious.
- noun A person suffering from a neurosis. No longer used in psychiatric diagnosis.
- noun Informal A person who is chronically anxious.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to the nervous system or to neuroses: as, a neurotic disease.
- Prone to the development of neuroses.
- Capable of acting on the nerves; nervine.
- noun A disease having its seat in the nerves.
- noun A medicine for nervous affections; a nervine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A disease seated in the nerves.
- noun (Med.) Any toxic agent whose action is mainly directed to the great nerve centers.
- noun A person afflicted with a neurosis{2}.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; nervous.
- adjective Useful in disorders of, or affecting, the nerves.
- adjective Of or pertaining to neurosis{2}; characteristic of neurosis{2}; caused by neurosis{2}.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Affected with aneurosis (Wikipedia). - adjective informal
Overly anxious . - noun A person who has a neurosis
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective affected with emotional disorder
- adjective characteristic of or affected by neurosis
- noun a person suffering from neurosis
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Examples
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But can't they all smell it now in neurotic, anxious, long-suffering Philadelphia?
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I slowly then realised how being neurotic is also very self-orientated.
snap 2007
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No analysis can go on in this light: here the neurotic is either instantly healed or goes mad.
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No analysis can go on in this light: here the neurotic is either instantly healed or goes mad.
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They are twisted and perverted, unhealthy, as in neurotic, while claiming to be pious, moral and pure.
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There's nothing consensual about their behaviour; presumably then, by your logic this scene has nothing to do with a prejudice rooted in neurotic fear and hatred of blacks, particularly focused on black male sexuality?
Wisdom, Justice And Mercy Hal Duncan 2006
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Which brings us to the fact that being neurotic is expensive.
Cheap Thrills 2006
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Which brings us to the fact that being neurotic is expensive.
Cheap Thrills 2006
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He wrote, “Considering what might be termed a neurotic susceptibility to give credence to ‘Flying Saucers,’ Source is considered to be of extremely dubious reliability.”
Space Ships of the Visitors Kevin Randle 2000
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He wrote, “Considering what might be termed a neurotic susceptibility to give credence to ‘Flying Saucers,’ Source is considered to be of extremely dubious reliability.”
Space Ships of the Visitors Kevin Randle 2000
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