neurosis

IPA: nʊrˈoʊsʌs

(pathology) A mental disorder, less severe than psychosis, marked by anxiety or fear which differ from normal measures by their intensity, which disorder results from a failure to compromise or properly adjust during the developmental stages of life, between normal human instinctual impulses and the demands of human society.

Examples of "neurosis" in Sentences

It's only another -- what you call neurosis, and what I call kink!
I would have guessed that high neurosis is meant to be correlated with low love in real life.
Well, they're stuck in cages, packed together, so, they get neurosis, which is being cage-crazy.
We have already explained the word neurosis, but we repeat here the definition given by Dr.J. R. Cocke.
The neurosis is setting in … the guilt, the guilt … think I need my meds … what IS the meaning of life, anyway????
Petite, I’d rather say that your neurosis is wanting to keep him in spite of the fact that you don’t feel comfortable with him (as you so eloquently describe).
It could be a case study as his type of neurosis is always the same, from the Great Past to the Blood and the Soil, to toying with a Final Solution that relies on Death.
I actually think it's a pretty good draft, though post-draft neurosis is starting to set in and within an hour I will be convinced that it's awful and broken and I hate it.
Perhaps the love of, or the intense need for, reading is psychological, an eccentricity, even something like a neurosis, that is, a pattern of behavior that persists beyond its usefulness, which is controlled by inner forces and which in turn controls.