neurosis

Meanings

Plural: neuroses

Noun

• a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction
• 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.

Synonyms

neuroticism, psychoneurosis, psychoneurosis[Appendix:Glossary

Antonyms

physioneurosis