neurosis

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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.

   On inquiry it was found that this neurosis corresponded in time with the oncome of the catamenia.

2. 2
   noun

   a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction

Etymology

From neuro- + -sis.