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neuroses
Variant of neurosis
noun pl. neuroses
- Psychiatry any of various mental disorders in which there is a symptom or group of symptoms that causes psychological pain or discomfort and may be very disabling: common neuroses include anxiety, compulsions, phobias, and depression
- popularly any emotional disturbance other than a psychosis
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