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an emotional illness in which a person experiences strong feelings of fear or worry
The patient is clearly suffering from a neurosis.
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Recent Examples of neurosis
The future will belong to people with a very specific combination of personality traits and psychosexual neuroses.
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Sam Kriss, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
The self-torturing helices of thought twisting inside the young minds on the courts are no less fraught than the recursive neuroses tormenting the addicts down the hill.
—Hermione Hoby, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
Abdul-Mateen is quite gifted at expressing Simon’s neuroses with minimal whininess.
—Bob Strauss, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Jan. 2026
This cuts through a lot of the shame, worry and neurosis we can get lost in.
—Heather V. MacArthur, Forbes.com, 18 Jan. 2026
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Sam Kriss, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
The self-torturing helices of thought twisting inside the young minds on the courts are no less fraught than the recursive neuroses tormenting the addicts down the hill.
—Hermione Hoby, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
Abdul-Mateen is quite gifted at expressing Simon’s neuroses with minimal whininess.
—Bob Strauss, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Jan. 2026
This cuts through a lot of the shame, worry and neurosis we can get lost in.
—Heather V. MacArthur, Forbes.com, 18 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for neurosis
Noun
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But a new tool, the Brain Care Score, shows how lifestyle changes can be beneficial, cutting the risk of dementia.—
David Morgan,
CBS News,
1 May 2026
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His wife recently raised more than $90,000 through GoFundMe to support his move into memory care following a dementia diagnosis.—
Cerys Davies,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Rodriguez’s attorneys allege that the suspect suffers from schizophrenia, according to The Seattle Times, The Daily Herald and KOMO News.—
KC Baker,
PEOPLE,
30 Apr. 2026
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Nick was reportedly in a mental health conservatorship from 2020 to 2021 and has been diagnosed with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder.—
Jami Ganz,
New York Daily News,
29 Apr. 2026
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Hathaway’s White Queen floats with sweet highs and dark lows, her heavenly air masking a morbid psychosis.—
Chris Feil,
Vulture,
1 May 2026
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Of course, those problems proved significant — and manifested as AI psychosis, suicide, murder, and several mass shootings that have been linked to the tech.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Neurosis.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neurosis. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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