neurosis

CEFRC1

/n(j)ʊˈɹəʊ̯.sɪs/

noun

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noun
A mental problem involving worry or unreasonable fear.
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noun
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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.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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On inquiry it was found that this neurosis corresponded in time with the oncome of the catamenia.

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On inquiry it was found that this neurosis corresponded in time with the oncome of the catamenia.
1881, American journal of obstetrics and diseases of women and children, volume 14
In the period from Spinoza to the end of the 19th century, the reading of design into nature received such devastating attacks from naturalists to non-naturalists alike that there developed an epistemological neurosis which Von Baer aptly termed “teleophobia.”
1952, D. Maurice Allan, “Towards a Natural Teleology”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 49, number 13, →DOI

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From neuro- + -sis.