neurosis

neurosis
[ˌnjʊəˈrəʊsɪs]
(pl. neuroses -siːz)
  1. (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
    (医)神经机能病,神经(官能)症。 比较 psychosis
    ■(in non-technical use) excessive and irrational anxiety or obsession
    (非技术用语)恐惧症
    apprehension over mounting debt has created a collective neurosis in the business world.
    对债务攀升的忧惧在商界造成了集体性的恐惧症。
语源
  1. mid 18th cent.: modern Latin, from neuro- 'of nerves' + -osis
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