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synonyms for neurosis

  • inhibition
  • aberration
  • abnormality
  • affliction
  • breakdown
  • compulsion
  • crack-up
  • derangement
  • deviation
  • hysteria
  • insanity
  • instability
  • madness
  • maladjustment
  • neurasthenia
  • obsession
  • phobia
  • psychopathy
  • mental illness
  • personality disorder
  • psychological disorder
See also synonyms for: neuroses

antonyms for neurosis

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  • balance
  • conformity
  • normality
  • sameness
  • soundness
  • adjustment
  • sanity
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Other neuroses, including anxiety and depression, are similarly linked to faster aging.
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During thru-hikes, I have sometimes known people for less than an hour before I know about their families and neuroses, sex lives and relationship traumas.
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From 1952 to 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, divided mental ailments into less-debilitating neuroses and more-debilitating psychoses.
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It sounds like what you really want, Just Me, is a bike trail with no hikers, to not have to navigate their passive-aggressive shaming nor plumb the acute neuroses that it triggers in you.
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After “an industrious night,” he wrote, “the barriers suddenly lifted, the veils dropped, and everything became transparent — from the details of the neuroses to the determinants of consciousness.”
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Marked variation in the amount at successive examinations strongly suggests a neurosis.
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Stekel,41 one of Freud's pupils, in an elaborate monograph, also lays stress on the sexual factor of the anxiety-neurosis.
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The neurosis goes back to some organic defect or other cause of childish humiliation.
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Compromise mechanisms will again be formed serving a purpose similar to the neurosis.
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Many of the characteristics of the unconscious will then appear and will be similar in some respects to those of neurosis.
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WORDS RELATED TO NEUROSIS

  • basket case
  • crack-up
  • disintegration
  • disruption
  • failure
  • freak out
  • mishap
  • nervous breakdown
  • nervous prostration
  • neurasthenia
  • neurosis
  • psychasthenia
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