neuroticism

Synonyms:

neurosis, psychoneurosis

Types:

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hysteria, hysterical neurosis

neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions

anxiety neurosis

characterized by diffuse anxiety and often somatic manifestations of fear

anxiety hysteria

a form of hysteria having features of both conversion disorder and anxiety neurosis

hysterocatalepsy

hysteria with cataleptic symptoms

Type of:

disturbance, folie, mental disorder, mental disturbance, psychological disorder

(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness