neurosis

  • 91occupational neurosis — n a condition that is caused by overuse of a muscle or set of muscles in repetitive performance of an operation (as in milking or dancing) and that is marked by loss of ability to constrain the muscles to perform the particular operation involved …

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  • 92organ neurosis — n any psychosomatic disorder (as a conversion disorder) …

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  • 93war neurosis — n combat fatigue …

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  • 94character neurosis — a type of character or personality disorder with some neurotic characteristics, particularly one of a predominantly obsessive compulsive or hysterical nature; see also neurosis …

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  • 95combat neurosis — noun a mental disorder caused by stress of active warfare • Syn: ↑battle fatigue, ↑combat fatigue, ↑shell shock • Hypernyms: ↑posttraumatic stress disorder, ↑PTSD * * * combat neurosis, = shell shock. (Cf. ↑ …

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  • 96depersonalisation neurosis — noun emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness • Syn: ↑depersonalization, ↑depersonalisation, ↑depersonalization disorder,… …

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  • 97depersonalization neurosis — noun emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness • Syn: ↑depersonalization, ↑depersonalisation, ↑depersonalization disorder,… …

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  • 98hysterical neurosis — noun neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions • Syn: ↑hysteria • Derivationally related forms: ↑hysteric (for: ↑hysteria), ↑hysterical (for: ↑ …

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  • 99actual neurosis — noun : a neurosis characterized by hypochondriacal complaints or somatic manifestations believed by Freud to be caused by organic changes resulting from sexual inhibition distinguished from psychoneurosis …

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  • 100cardiac neurosis — noun : a condition marked by shortness of breath, fatigue, rapid pulse, and heart palpitation sometimes with extra beats that occurs chiefly with exertion and is not due to physical disease of the heart called also effort syndrome, irritable… …

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