neuroticism
IPA: nʊrˈɑtɪsɪzʌm
noun
- The quality or state of being neurotic
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Examples of "neuroticism" in Sentences
- Change in neuroticism tied to mortality rates, researcher says
- For instance, guess which states are the highest-scoring states in 'neuroticism'.
- This may cause a hysterical fit that turns into physical symptoms such as neuroticism, panic
- Assessing personality measures such as neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness [
- The study of people who took GlaxoSmithKline's Paxil, known generically as paroxetine, suggests the drug may treat factors such as neuroticism that make a person more likely to be depressed in the first place.
- PERLS: Some of the things that they have in common that absolutely add years instead of subtracting those years would be that they tend to have a personality where they're low in one domain of personality testing called neuroticism, meaning that they have these personalities where they're happy go lucky.
- Interestingly, although people with varying levels of some personality traits, such as neuroticism, agreeableness and conscientiousness, intermarry at a seemingly random rate, high-sensation seekers - as well as those on the low end of the sensation-seeking scale - tend to pick similarly arousable people as mates.
- PERLS: Well some of the things that they have in common that actually add years instead of subtracting those years would be that they tend to have a personality where they're low in one domain of personality testing called neuroticism, meaning that they have these personalities where they're happy-go-lucky, they have a good sense of humor, they're optimistic.
- Taking my own highly scientific survey of my immediate cluster of video gaming family members, I come up with an average age of 34.8, about 60% of whom are at least moderately overweight and 80% of whom are pretty well off their rockers (although scoring higher in the study's "neuroticism" and "psychoticism" demographics than we do with "depression" -- but with .2 years still to go, there is still a chance we will make it).
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