Explore Neurosis through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like neuroticism or psychoneurosis. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Neurosis in a sentence
Neurosis meaning
A mental disorder, less severe than psychosis, marked by anxiety or fear which differ from normal measures by their intensity, which disorder results from a failure to compromise or properly adjust during the developmental stages of life, between normal human instinctual impulses and the demands of human society.
Synonyms of Neurosis
Using Neurosis
- The main meaning on this page is: A mental disorder, less severe than psychosis, marked by anxiety or fear which differ from normal measures by their intensity, which disorder results from a failure to compromise or properly adjust during the developmental stages of life, between normal human instinctual impulses and the demands of human society.
- Useful related words include: neuroticism, psychoneurosis, mental disorder, mental disturbance.
- In the example corpus, neurosis often appears in combinations such as: neurosis and, of neurosis, for neurosis.
Context around Neurosis
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 9 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Neurosis
- In this selection, "neurosis" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, hysterical, disorder, godflesh, causes, must and further stand out and add context to how "neurosis" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include amy his neurosis about her and and hysterical neurosis as the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "neurosis" sits close to words such as aare, aarti and abl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with neurosis
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The neurosis must have been about something else. (8 words)
Neurosis may also be called psychoneurosis or neurotic disorder. (9 words)
Neurosis is that feeling and they are that black thing. (10 words)
You can call that a compulsion or a neurosis, but in Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind, we see that it was Williams’ gift to the world, and it’s one we’ll always miss. (35 words)
In her theory, neurosis is a distorted way of looking at the world and at oneself, which is determined by compulsive needs rather than by a genuine interest in the world as it is. (34 words)
Freud argued that neurosis or perversion could be explained in terms of fixation or regression to these phases whereas adult character and cultural creativity could achieve a sublimation of their perverse residue. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
D., psychotherapist, head of the Universal Brain Center, the first private psychotherapeutic center for neurosis and Alzheimer’s disease in Kazakhstan.
His experiments involved the Freudian developmental phases—the oral stage, the anal stage, the Oedipal complex, et cetera—because these are often understood as the starting points for neurosis.
Defined as a mental disorder, neurosis causes obsessive fears, depression and unreasonable behaviour.
The neurosis must have been about something else.
Influenced by acts like the Cure, Godflesh, Neurosis and Killing Joke, the band has a vintage sound yet manages to keep things new with its use of post-rock textures.
Schultz drew us, literally, into the neurosis and philosophical ponderings of his gang, liberating them from the funny pages, as teacher, illustrator, editor, and cartoonist Ivan Brunetti, points out.
Later solo work and collaborations with Oakland post-metal originators Neurosis further cemented Jarboe’s legacy.
Neurosis is that feeling and they are that black thing.
You can call that a compulsion or a neurosis, but in Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind, we see that it was Williams’ gift to the world, and it’s one we’ll always miss.
According to Freud, the Oedipus complex, was at the centre of neurosis, and was the foundational source of all art, myth, religion, philosophy, therapy—indeed of all human culture and civilization.
A controversy emerged regarding deletion of the concept of neurosis, a mainstream of psychoanalytic theory and therapy but seen as vague and unscientific by the DSM task force.
All too often, the diagnosis of neurosis as the cause of pain hides our ignorance of many aspects of pain medicine.
Between 1968 and 1980, the term that was used for dissocative identity disorder was "Hysterical neurosis, dissociative type".
Despite the fact that he was in love with his girlfriend, Amy, his neurosis about her adventurous sexual past caused him to sabotage the relationship and leave her.
Freud argued that neurosis or perversion could be explained in terms of fixation or regression to these phases whereas adult character and cultural creativity could achieve a sublimation of their perverse residue.
From 1909, Adler's views on topics such as neurosis began to differ markedly from those held by Freud.
In her theory, neurosis is a distorted way of looking at the world and at oneself, which is determined by compulsive needs rather than by a genuine interest in the world as it is.
In Horney's view, mild anxiety disorders and full-blown personality disorders all fall under her basic scheme of neurosis.
It was believed that there would be "total chaos and panic" and hysterical neurosis as the people of London would try to flee the city.
Neurosis may also be called psychoneurosis or neurotic disorder.
Common combinations with neurosis
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- neurosis and 5×
- of neurosis 5×
- for neurosis 2×
- the neurosis 2×
- neurosis is 2×
- neurosis as 2×
- hysterical neurosis 2×