neurosis

From neuro- +‎ -sis.

• enPR: n(y)o͝o-rō′sĭs^[1]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /n(j)ʊˈɹəʊ̯.sɪs/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /n(j)ʊˈɹoʊ̯.sɪs/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /n(j)ʊˈɹəʉ̯.sɪs/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /n(j)ʊˈɹɐʉ̯.səs/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /n(j)ʉˈɹo.sɪs/
• (India) IPA^(key): /n(j)ʊˈɾoː.sɪs/
• Rhymes: -əʊsɪs
• Hyphenation: neu‧ro‧sis^[1]

neurosis (countable and uncountable, plural neuroses)

2. (dated, pathology; current in psychology and philosophy) 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. [from the 1700s]

   Synonym: (dated) psychoneurosis

   Antonym: physioneurosis

   • 1881, American journal of obstetrics and diseases of women and children, volume 14:

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

   • 1952, D. Maurice Allan, “Towards a Natural Teleology”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 49, number 13, →DOI:

     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.”

• The term is no longer part of mainstream psychiatric terminology in the United States,^[1] having been removed from the DSM in 1980, when its editors decided to provide descriptions of behavior rather than of hidden psychological mechanisms.^[2][3] It may still be found in texts on psychology and philosophy.^[4][5]

• “neurosis”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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From neuro- +‎ -sis.

• IPA^(key): /neuˈɾosis/ [neu̯ˈɾo.sis]
• Rhymes: -osis
• Syllabification: neu‧ro‧sis

neurosis f (plural neurosis)

2. (pathology; psychology, philosophy) neurosis (mental disorder)

• “neurosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024