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Usually means: Excessive anxiety causing psychological distress
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word neurosis:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. neurosis: Merriam-Webster
  2. neurosis: Wordnik
  3. neurosis: Cambridge English Dictionary
  4. neurosis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  5. neurosis: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  6. neurosis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  7. neurosis: Collins English Dictionary
  8. neurosis: Vocabulary.com
  9. neurosis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. neurosis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. neurosis: Random House Unabridged Dictionary (1997)
  12. neurosis: Dictionary.com
  13. neurosis: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. neurosis: Rhymezone (WordNet)
  15. neurosis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. neurosis: TheFreeDictionary.com (American Heritage)
  17. neurosis: Oxford English Dictionary

General (historical) (1 matching dictionary)
  1. neurosis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition

User-edited (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. neurosis: Wiktionary
  2. Neurosis (disambiguation), Neurosis (band), Neurosis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  3. neurosis: Urban Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -neurosis: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. neurosis: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  6. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  8. Neurosis: Drug Medical Dictionary

(Note: See neuroses as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (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.

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