Usually means: Anxiety-based, maladaptive behavioral responses.
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  1. neuroses: Merriam-Webster
  2. neuroses: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. neuroses: Collins English Dictionary
  4. neuroses: Vocabulary.com
  5. Neuroses, neuroses: Wordnik
  6. neuroses: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. neuroses: Wiktionary
  8. neuroses: Dictionary.com
  9. neuroses: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Neuroses: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. neuroses: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. neuroses: Encyclopedia

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  1. neuroses: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. neuroses: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (neurosis)

noun:  (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.
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