neurosis
noun
[ ˌnjʊəˈrəʊsɪs ]
• a relatively mild mental illness that is not caused by organic disease, involving symptoms of stress (depression, anxiety, obsessive behaviour, hypochondria) but not a radical loss of touch with reality.
• "Freud's two-stage account of neurosis"
Similar:
mental illness,
mental disorder,
psychological disorder,
mental disturbance,
mental derangement,
mental instability,
psychological maladjustment,
psychoneurosis,
psychopathy,
obsession,
phobia,
fixation,
neuroticism,
Origin:
mid 18th century: modern Latin, from neuro- ‘of nerves’ + -osis.
