| 单词 | neurosis |
| 释义 | neurosis (once / 2978 pages) n If you feel overly anxious and worried, that is a sign of neurosis: a mental illness with no particular cause. Depression, tension, irritability, and nervousness are all symptoms of a mental or emotional disorder called neurosis. When you have a neurosis, you worry so much that it makes life difficult. The difficult thing about neurosis is there’s not something specifically wrong, like with a broken leg or type of cancer. Neurosis is a mental-health issue that can be minor or very serious. It's also very common, and many comedians have made fun of their own neurosis in their work. WORD FAMILYneurosis: neuroses, neurotic+/neurotic: neurotically, neuroticism, neurotics, unneurotic/neuroticism: neuroticisms USAGE EXAMPLESAs it chronicles Anna’s through line from neurosis to psychosis, it implies that, in times such as these, maybe the girl can’t help it. New York Times(Nov 24, 2016) When perhaps the real neurosis is our desire for monuments of any kind. The New Yorker(Nov 12, 2016) On stage, he turns into the character by smearing black make-up over his face and neck - representing the suffocating effect of his neuroses. BBC(Nov 09, 2016) n a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction Syn|Hypo|Hyper neuroticism, psychoneurosis hysteria, hysterical neurosis neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions anxiety neurosischaracterized by diffuse anxiety and often somatic manifestations of fear anxiety hysteriaa form of hysteria having features of both conversion disorder and anxiety neurosis hysterocatalepsyhysteria with cataleptic symptoms disturbance, folie, mental disorder, mental disturbance, psychological disorder (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness |
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