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an emotional illness in which a person experiences strong feelings of fear or worry
The patient is clearly suffering from a neurosis.
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Recent Examples of neurosis
A bit later, her sometimes-exhausting internal monologues arrived on Broadway in song form, which aired out the neurosis.
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Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 19 May 2025
This time, however, there’s a good chance those are your neuroses, too.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 16 May 2025
Some of Fey’s signatures, like social neurosis and a respect for sandwiches, are present here, though deployed less for jokes than for realism.
—Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 1 May 2025
That may sound like a vague virtue, but Dortmund have received a lot of criticism this season — rightly — and that has bred neuroses throughout their team.
—Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
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Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 19 May 2025
This time, however, there’s a good chance those are your neuroses, too.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 16 May 2025
Some of Fey’s signatures, like social neurosis and a respect for sandwiches, are present here, though deployed less for jokes than for realism.
—Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 1 May 2025
That may sound like a vague virtue, but Dortmund have received a lot of criticism this season — rightly — and that has bred neuroses throughout their team.
—Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for neurosis
Noun
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My father handled most of the issues but now suffers from dementia, so there are a lot of unknowns.—
Eric Thomas,
Sun Sentinel,
10 July 2025
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But people with dementia do actually live in the moment.—
Stephen Schaefer,
Boston Herald,
10 July 2025
Noun
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In another scenario, New Berlin police officers responded to a woman who was loitering and recognized signs of schizophrenia and PTSD.—
Bridget Fogarty,
jsonline.com,
3 July 2025
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On Facebook in 2023, Rudd said he was given antipsychotic medications to treat schizophrenia.—
Kevin Grasha,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
Noun
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In the shadow of Coppola’s collective political fantasy Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 phantasmagoria Apocalypse Now put the concept of social disaster and political psychosis into the mainstream, from the Vietnam War to the Covidapocalypse.—
Armond White,
National Review,
4 July 2025
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Another step that could help youth mental health is HB 1594, requiring health insurance plans to provide complete coverage to anyone younger than 26 years old who is experiencing psychosis for the first time.—
Stephen Simpson,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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“Neurosis.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neurosis. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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