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Definition of Psychoneurotic
1. Noun. A person suffering from neurosis.
Specialized synonyms: Claustrophobe, Hysteric, Obsessive, Obsessive-compulsive, Psychopath, Sociopath
Generic synonyms: Diseased Person, Sick Person, Sufferer
Derivative terms: Neurotic
2. Adjective. Affected with emotional disorder.
Similar to: Aboulic, Abulic, Compulsive, Delusional, Disturbed, Maladjusted, Hypochondriac, Hypochondriacal, Hysteric, Hysterical, Megalomaniacal, Megalomanic, Monomaniacal, Nymphomaniac, Nymphomaniacal, Obsessional, Obsessive, Obsessive-compulsive, Pathological, Phobic, Psychosomatic, Schizoid
Derivative terms: Neurosis, Neurotic, Psychoneurosis
Antonyms: Unneurotic
Definition of Psychoneurotic
1. Adjective. Pertaining to or suffering from a psychoneurosis. ¹
2. Noun. Someone suffering from a psychoneurosis. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Psychoneurotic
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Psychoneurotic
Literary usage of Psychoneurotic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Clinical Medicine by Lewellys Franklin Barker (1922)
"A psychoneurotic PRESENTING THE CHRONIC INVALID REACTION ASTHENIA, ANOREXIA,
NAUSEA, AND OTHER SYMPTOMS OF A REACTION OF CHRONIC INVALIDISM m AN EMACIATED ..."
2. A Few Kind Words about Hate: The Dark Side of Family Life and the Bible by Una Stannard (2007)
"psychoneurotic Ernest Jones characterized the "hysteria" Freud suffered from as
the "very considerable psychoneurosis ..."
3. Therapeutic Gazette (1907)
"According to Gilles de la Tou- rette, the atrophy differs from that of organic
disease, being more general in the extremity with the psychoneurotic joint, ..."
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