OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 19756

neurosis

/n(j)ʊˈɹəʊ̯.sɪs/
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neurosis
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.
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…
On inquiry it was found that this neurosis corresponded in time with the oncome of the catamenia.
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