Yahoo Web Search

Search results

1. Dictionary

   neu·ro·sis

   /no͝oˈrōsəs/

   noun

   • 1. a relatively mild mental illness that is not caused by organic disease, involving symptoms of stress (depression, anxiety, obsessive behaviour, hypochondria) but not a radical loss of touch with reality. "Freud's two-stage account of neurosis"
   • ▪ (in nontechnical use) excessive and irrational anxiety or obsession: "apprehension over mounting debt has created a collective neurosis in the business world"

   Word Origin late 18th century: modern Latin, from neuro- ‘of nerves’ + -osis.

   Scrabble Points: 8

   • N

     1

   • E

     1

   • U

     1

   • R

     1

   • O

     1

   • S

     1

   • I

     1

   • S

     1

   Powered by Oxford Dictionaries

   More definitions, origin and scrabble points