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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
Ruben Amorim had spent the previous year slowly folding in on himself, making his own neuroses institutional.
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Carl Anka, New York Times, 3 May 2026
This remains a great part for Hathaway, who can hint at all sorts of neuroses beneath a character’s surface pep.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026
Bad things happen when an AI chatbot latches onto one of your neuroses.
—Frank Landymore, Futurism, 8 Apr. 2026
No one is immune to the lampooning, even the dazed and confused sons and daughters who get sidelined and pawned off due to their parents’ ambitions, neuroses and desires to achieve greatness.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2026
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Carl Anka, New York Times, 3 May 2026
This remains a great part for Hathaway, who can hint at all sorts of neuroses beneath a character’s surface pep.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026
Bad things happen when an AI chatbot latches onto one of your neuroses.
—Frank Landymore, Futurism, 8 Apr. 2026
No one is immune to the lampooning, even the dazed and confused sons and daughters who get sidelined and pawned off due to their parents’ ambitions, neuroses and desires to achieve greatness.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for neurosis
Recent Examples of Synonyms for neurosis
Noun
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Wendy Williams' attorney has denied her frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and aphasia diagnosis, conditions the former talk show host was allegedly diagnosed with two years ago.—
Tracy Wright,
FOXNews.com,
11 Dec. 2025
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The residence is also designated as a dementia-friendly site.—
Hope Karnopp,
jsonline.com,
11 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Brown had a history of violent crime, including assaults and robberies, and had also been diagnosed with schizophrenia.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
8 Dec. 2025
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The 84-year-old San Diego resident is hiding from her son, Ed, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia and has spent much of the last 30 years in jail, prison or a state mental hospital.—
Paul Sisson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Dec. 2025
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But by OpenAI’s own numbers, that amounts to some half a million people regularly exhibiting mania or psychosis on the platform.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
11 Dec. 2025
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Preda, who studies psychosis, laid out a path from simulation to human clinical trials.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
4 Dec. 2025
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“Neurosis.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neurosis. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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