What does Neurotic mean?

Definitions for Neurotic
nʊˈrɒt ɪk, nyʊ-neu·rot·ic

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. neurotic, psychoneurotic, mental caseadjective

    a person suffering from neurosis

  2. neuroticadjective

    characteristic of or affected by neurosis

    "neurotic disorder"; "neurotic symptoms"

  3. neurotic, psychoneuroticadjective

    affected with emotional disorder

GCIDE

  1. Neuroticadjective

    Of or pertaining to neurosis; characteristic of neurosis; caused by neurosis.

  2. Neuroticnoun

    A person afflicted with a neurosis.

Wiktionary

  1. neuroticnoun

    A person who has a neurosis

  2. neuroticadjective

    (obsolete?) Affected with a neurosis

  3. neuroticadjective

    Overly anxious

ChatGPT

  1. neurotic

    Neurotic is a psychological term used to describe a person who displays characteristics of anxiety, obsessive behavior, hypochondria, or varying degrees of depression. These individuals often experience extreme emotional responses to certain situations, feeling unusually stressed, anxious, or upset. The term is also related to neurosis, a class of functional mental disorders involving distress but neither delusions nor hallucinations. Please note that neurotic is a broad term and is often used loosely to describe a wide range of mental health conditions and behaviors, making it potentially misleading or stigmatizing.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Neuroticadjective

    of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; nervous; as, a neurotic disease

  2. Neuroticadjective

    uself in disorders of, or affecting, the nerves

  3. Neuroticnoun

    a disease seated in the nerves

  4. Neuroticnoun

    any toxic agent whose action is mainly directed to the great nerve centers

  5. Etymology: [Gr. ney^ron nerve.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Neurotic

    nū-rot′ik, adj. relating to, or seated in, the nerves.—n. a disease of the nerves: a medicine useful for diseases of the nerves.—adj. Neurō′sal.—n. Neurō′sis, a nervous disease, esp. without lesion of parts, as epilepsy, &c.

Anagrams for Neurotic »

  1. countrie

  2. unerotic

  3. eruction

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Neurotic in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Neurotic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Neurotic in a Sentence

  1. Sigmund Freud:

    The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.

  2. David Schmid:

    The reason these neurotic Mafiosi resonate with us is that we can all relate to being in a job that we don't want to do.

  3. Rollo May:

    The neurotic and the artist - since both live out the unconscious of the race - reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on.

  4. Lillian Hellman:

    We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

  5. Dr. Karl Menninger:

    Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.

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