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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 neuroses
Some of the essays are benign and well-documented; tales of her own neuroses, and her obsessions with the health of her father, Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm creator Larry David.
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Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 27 Mar. 2026
The future will belong to people with a very specific combination of personality traits and psychosexual neuroses.
—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
That wouldn’t be a weakness in and of itself, but his archetypical characters weren’t built to carry a ‘Lawrence of Arabia’-sized epic that hinges on the nuances of their love, grief, and neuroses.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2025
Kruger, who was so much fun as a randy noblewoman in HBO Max’s French-language Dangerous Liaisons riff The Seduction, captures Jess’ neuroses without going full antivax harpy.
—Judy Berman, Time, 10 Dec. 2025
Of course, Solomonik is far from the first person to explore the inherent absurdity of trans life by exaggerating that absurdity, but so rarely is the transmasc psyche in all of its neuroses explored in such a way.
—Ana Osorno, Them., 21 Nov. 2025
Unfortunately, my neuroses can rack up unnecessary expense.
—Kristen Geil, Outside, 27 Oct. 2025
Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 27 Mar. 2026
The future will belong to people with a very specific combination of personality traits and psychosexual neuroses.
—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
That wouldn’t be a weakness in and of itself, but his archetypical characters weren’t built to carry a ‘Lawrence of Arabia’-sized epic that hinges on the nuances of their love, grief, and neuroses.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2025
Kruger, who was so much fun as a randy noblewoman in HBO Max’s French-language Dangerous Liaisons riff The Seduction, captures Jess’ neuroses without going full antivax harpy.
—Judy Berman, Time, 10 Dec. 2025
Of course, Solomonik is far from the first person to explore the inherent absurdity of trans life by exaggerating that absurdity, but so rarely is the transmasc psyche in all of its neuroses explored in such a way.
—Ana Osorno, Them., 21 Nov. 2025
Unfortunately, my neuroses can rack up unnecessary expense.
—Kristen Geil, Outside, 27 Oct. 2025
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“Neuroses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neuroses. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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