neurosis
- IPA[no͝oˈrōsəs]
美式
- 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.;(in nontechnical use) excessive and irrational anxiety or obsession
noun: neurosis, plural noun: neuroses
- 釋義
名詞
- 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 psychoses, neuroses, and personality disorders
- ▪ (in nontechnical use) excessive and irrational anxiety or obsession apprehension over mounting debt has created a collective neurosis in the business world
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- IPA[njʊəˈrəʊsɪs]
英式
- a relatively mild mental illness that is not caused by organic disease, involving symptoms of ... Freud's two-stage account of neurosis psychoses, neuroses, and personality disorders
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