Explore Neuroses through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Neuroses in a sentence
Neuroses meaning
- plural of neurosis
- plural of neurose
Using Neuroses
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of neurosis | plural of neurose
- In the example corpus, neuroses often appears in combinations such as: the neuroses, neuroses and, his neuroses.
Context around Neuroses
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 9 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Neuroses
- In this selection, "neuroses" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, attendant, size, battle, onstage and must stand out and add context to how "neuroses" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include array of neuroses and ball of neuroses like larry. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "neuroses" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbess, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with neuroses
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I do miss Nina’s neuroses, her inner monologue which often reminds me of me. (15 words)
But only those thoughts and behaviors that produce difficulties in one's life should be called neuroses. (17 words)
In the former case, seductions were sought as the causes of later neuroses and in the latter incomplete sexual release. (20 words)
Huston explains how he became interested in psychotherapy, the subject of the film: I first got into that through an experience in a hospital during the war, where I made a documentary about patients suffering from battle neuroses. (38 words)
Under Lee, Marvel revolutionized the comic book world by imbuing its characters with the self-doubts and neuroses of average people, as well an awareness of trends and social causes and, often, a sense of humor. (36 words)
The crew are worried that HAL will have the same neuroses on discovering that he will be abandoned yet again, so Chandra must convince HAL that the human crew is in danger. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
One thread of his third film, the 1994 showbiz satire “I’ll Do Anything,” focuses on the neuroses and pressures of test screenings.
The 75-year-old “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star, who is known for wearing all-black and exploring his neuroses onstage, posted a video Monday to Twitter explaining his various health issues.
Lewis, an acclaimed comedian known for exploring his neuroses in frantic, stream-of-consciousness diatribes while dressed in all-black, leading to his nickname “The Prince of Pain,” has died.
The very neuroses and craziness white people exhibit in their automatic reflexive efforts to cover up the lie of whiteness are exhibit A – evidence of the wound.
It takes a rare sort of person, after all, to be able to wrangle all of David’s various hang-ups and neuroses.
Jesse Armstrong’s exploration of the neuroses of the super-rich could hardly be more relevant in 2020, but there’s also something timelessly Shakespearean about the Roy family dynamic.
Maybe it’s because it’s the ego and its attendant neuroses that shrink rather than a person’s sense of self-worth.
Halloween can bring out the worst in people, and when you’re a walking ball of neuroses like Larry David, that worst is pretty bad.
I do miss Nina’s neuroses, her inner monologue which often reminds me of me.
It will strip me of some of my precious memories and some of my cognitive function, but it will also strip me of many of the neuroses that make life wretched.
This amorphous creature that feeds on fear works perfectly in a parable for lost innocence and a story about confronting your neuroses.
The squabbling Maggie and Jacob have been accoutered with those bright, jumbo-size neuroses and eccentricities that are often found in dysfunctional-family sitcoms.
Under Lee, Marvel revolutionized the comic book world by imbuing its characters with the self-doubts and neuroses of average people, as well an awareness of trends and social causes and, often, a sense of humor.
But only those thoughts and behaviors that produce difficulties in one's life should be called neuroses.
His explorations of his feelings of hostility to his father and rivalrous jealousy over his mother's affections led him to fundamentally revise his theory of the origin of the neuroses.
However, to qualify, those neuroses must be more than simple states of fear, or problems in coping with everyday life, which do not amount to psychiatric illnesses.
Huston explains how he became interested in psychotherapy, the subject of the film: I first got into that through an experience in a hospital during the war, where I made a documentary about patients suffering from battle neuroses.
In the former case, seductions were sought as the causes of later neuroses and in the latter incomplete sexual release.
The crew are worried that HAL will have the same neuroses on discovering that he will be abandoned yet again, so Chandra must convince HAL that the human crew is in danger.
They keep him on the run with restlessness, vague apprehensions, psychological complications, an insatiable need for pills, alcohol, tobacco, food — and, above all, a large array of neuroses.
Common combinations with neuroses
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the neuroses 4×
- neuroses and 4×
- his neuroses 2×
- and neuroses 2×
- neuroses of 2×
- neuroses that 2×
- of neuroses 2×