neurosis


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
neurosis /ˌnjʊəˈrəʊsɪs/
noun (pl. neuroses /-siːz/) Medicine a relatively mild mental illness not caused by organic disease, involving depression, anxiety, obsessive behaviour, etc. but not a radical loss of touch with reality.
– origin C18: mod. L., from neuro- + -osis.
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