English-Thai Dictionary

neurosis

N โรคประสาท  rok-pra-sad

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

NEUROSIS

Neu *ro "sis, n.; pl. Neuroses. Etym: [NL. , fr. gr. (Med. )

 

Defn: A functional nervous affection or disease, that is, a disease of the nerves without any appreciable change of nerve structure.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

neurosis

neu ro sis |n (y )o͝oˈrōsis n (j )uˈroʊsəs | ▶noun ( pl. neuroses |-ˌsēz | ) Medicine a relatively mild mental illness that is not caused by organic disease, involving symptoms of stress (depression, anxiety, obsessive behavior, hypochondria ) but not a radical loss of touch with reality. Compare with psychosis . • (in nontechnical use ) excessive and irrational anxiety or obsession: apprehension over mounting debt has created a collective neurosis in the business world. ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: modern Latin, from neuro- ‘of nerves ’ + -osis .

 

Oxford Dictionary

neurosis

neurosis |ˌnjʊəˈrəʊsɪs | ▶noun ( pl. neuroses |-siːz | ) Medicine 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. Compare with psychosis . • (in non-technical use ) excessive and irrational anxiety or obsession: too much neurosis about a child's progress is unproductive. ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: modern Latin, from neuro- ‘of nerves ’ + -osis .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

neurosis

neurosis noun has he been diagnosed with an actual neurosis? mental illness, mental disorder, psychological disorder; psychoneurosis, psychopathy; obsession, phobia, fixation; Medicine neuroticism.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

neurosis

neurosis noun Max was said to be in the grip of some sort of neurosis: mental illness, mental disorder, psychological disorder, mental disturbance, mental derangement, mental instability, psychological maladjustment, psychoneurosis, psychopathy; obsession, phobia, fixation; rare neuroticism.

 

Spanish Dictionary

neurosis

neurosis nombre femenino Nombre genérico de un grupo de enfermedades que se caracterizan por la presencia de trastornos nerviosos y alteraciones emocionales sin que, aparentemente, haya ninguna lesión física en el sistema nervioso :la histeria es un tipo de neurosis .ETIMOLOGÍA Derivado (s. xix ) del griego nêuron ‘nervio ’ con el sufijo -sis ‘estado irregular ’, ‘enfermedad ’. De la raíz indoeuropea de nervio (V.).El plural es neurosis .

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

neurosis

neu ro sis /nuróʊsɪs |nju (ə )rə́ʊ -/名詞 複 -ses /-sìːz /U C 〘医 〙ノイローゼ, 神経症 .