neurosis

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: neu=ro=sis

CIDE DICTIONARY

neurosis, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ney^ron nerve.].

•  A functional nervous affection or disease, that is, a disease of the nerves without any appreciable change of nerve structure.  [1913 Webster]
•  a mental or emotional disorder that affects only part of the personality, and involves less distorted perceptions of reality than a psychosis. As used in medicine, anxiety is a prominent characteristic, and the condition may be accompanied by psychosomatic symptoms. Phobias and compulsive behavior are common varieties.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

neurosis, n. (pl. neuroses) a mental illness characterized by irrational or depressive thought or behaviour, caused by a disorder of the nervous system usu. without organic change.

Etymology

mod.L (as NEURO-, -OSIS)

THESAURUS

neurosis

abulia, accident neurosis, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, arteriosclerotic psychosis, association neurosis, battle fatigue, blast neurosis, brain disease, certifiability, combat fatigue, compensation neurosis, compulsion neurosis, conversion hysteria, conversion neurosis, crack-up, dementia paralytica, dipsomania, drug addiction, emotional disorder, emotional instability, expectation neurosis, fixation neurosis, folie du doute, frayed nerves, frazzled nerves, fright neurosis, functional nervous disorder, functional psychosis, general paralysis, general paresis, homosexual neurosis, hypochondria, hypochondriasis, hysteria, insanity, jangled nerves, maladjustment, manic-depressive psychosis, melancholia, mental disorder, mental illness, metabolic psychosis, moral insanity, nervous breakdown, nervous disorder, nervous prostration, neurasthenia, neuroticism, obsessional neurosis, occupational neurosis, organic psychosis, paralytic dementia, paranoia, pathological drunkenness, pathoneurosis, personality disorder, phobia, presenile dementia, prison psychosis, problems in living, psychasthenia, psychoneurosis, psychoneurotic disorder, psychopathia, psychopathia martialis, psychopathia sexualis, psychopathic condition, psychopathic personality, psychopathy, psychosis, raw nerves, reaction, regression neurosis, schizophrenia, senile dementia, senile psychosis, senility, sexual pathology, shattered nerves, shell shock, situational neurosis, situational psychosis, social maladjustment, syphilitic paresis, toxic psychosis, twanging nerves, war neurosis

ROGET THESAURUS

neurosis

Insanity

N insanity, disordered reason, disordered intellect, diseased mind, unsound mind, abnormal mind, derangement, unsoundness, psychosis, neurosis, cognitive disorder, affective disorder, insanity, lunacy, madness, mania, rabies, furor, mental alienation, aberration, paranoia, schizophrenia, dementation, dementia, demency, phrenitis, phrensy, frenzy, raving, incoherence, wandering, delirium, calenture of the brain, delusion, hallucination, lycanthropy, brain storm, vertigo, dizziness, swimming, sunstroke, coup de soleil, siriasis, fanaticism, infatuation, craze, oddity, eccentricity, twist, monomania (caprice), kleptodipsomania, hypochondriasis, melancholia, depression, clinical depression, severe depression, hysteria, amentia, screw loose, tile loose, slate loose, bee in one's bonnet, rats in the upper story, dotage, insane, mad, lunatic, loony, crazy, crazed, aliene, non compos mentis, not right, cracked, touched, bereft of reason, all possessed, unhinged, unsettled in one's mind, insensate, reasonless, beside oneself, demented, daft, phrenzied, frenzied, frenetic, possessed, possessed with a devil, deranged, maddened, moonstruck, shatterpated, mad-brained, scatter brained, shatter brained, crackbrained, touched, tetched, off one's head, maniacal, delirious, lightheaded, incoherent, rambling, doting, wandering, frantic, raving, stark staring mad, stark raving mad, wild-eyed, berserk, delusional, hallucinatory, corybantic, dithyrambic, rabid, giddy, vertiginous, wild, haggard, mazed, flighty, distracted, distraught, depressed, agitated, hyped up, bewildered, mad as a March hare, mad as a hatter, of unsound mind, touched in one's head, wrong in one's head, not right in one's head, not in one's right mind, not right in one's wits, upper story, out of one's mind, out of one's wits, out of one's skull, far gone, out of one's senses, out of one's wits, not in one's right mind, fanatical, infatuated, odd, eccentric, hypped, hyppish, spaced out, imbecile, silly, like one possessed, the mind having lost its balance, the reason under a cloud, tet exaltee, tet montee, ira furor brevis est, omnes stultos insanire.