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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
Jolie, as Maria Callas, superbly depicts a reclusive superstar in her declining days, losing her voice and coping with the neuroses of billionaire Aristotle Onassis.
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Peter Bart, Deadline, 19 Dec. 2024
In a way we are called to do similar work with types, with the objective being to stop pathologizing the ones that might heal us or rescue us from neurosis.
—Harmony Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
Even Hannah was entertaining with her neurosis.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2024
The concepts minted in the early 1960s by the late French literary critic and philosopher René Girard explain the pathologies of the smartphone age as elegantly as Freud’s explained bourgeois neuroses at the turn of the last century.
—Matthew Gasda, airmail.news, 27 July 2024
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Peter Bart, Deadline, 19 Dec. 2024
In a way we are called to do similar work with types, with the objective being to stop pathologizing the ones that might heal us or rescue us from neurosis.
—Harmony Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
Even Hannah was entertaining with her neurosis.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2024
The concepts minted in the early 1960s by the late French literary critic and philosopher René Girard explain the pathologies of the smartphone age as elegantly as Freud’s explained bourgeois neuroses at the turn of the last century.
—Matthew Gasda, airmail.news, 27 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for neurosis
Noun
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An Alzheimer's Association report, released April 29, said the total annual cost of caring for people living with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia will reach $384 billion in 2025.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2025
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Alzheimer's disease, the most common cause of dementia, is a neurodegenerative condition that can start developing 20 years before symptoms appear.—
Allen Chang,
ABC News,
29 Apr. 2025
Noun
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But Bob, who suffers from schizophrenia and anxiety, doesn't share Rogers' mental stability and strong moral compass.—
Sydney Bucksbaum,
EW.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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Lisa Cotton suffered from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder as well as asthma, and young Nazir Millien was severely autistic and disabled, said police sources.—
Ellen Moynihan,
New York Daily News,
22 Apr. 2025
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In truth, Joe himself committed all the murders, with Rhys being a manifestation of his own psychosis.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Apr. 2025
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Plus, there is another trial ongoing for Alzheimer's psychosis, which would a big opportunity.—
Matthew J. Belvedere,
CNBC,
23 Apr. 2025
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“Neurosis.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neurosis. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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