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PSYCHONEUROSIS

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Irregular inflected form: psychoneuroses  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunctionplay

Synonyms:

neurosis; neuroticism; psychoneurosis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("psychoneurosis" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "psychoneurosis"):

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)

Derivation:

psychoneurotic (affected with emotional disorder)

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