Also called psychoneurosis. a functional disorder in which feelings of anxiety, obsessional thoughts, compulsive acts, and physical complaints without objective evidence of disease, in various degrees and patterns, dominate the personality.

a relatively mild personality disorder typified by excessive anxiety or indecision and a degree of social or interpersonal maladjustment.

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adjustment , balance , sanity

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aberration , abnormality , affliction , breakdown , compulsion , crack-up , derangement , deviation , hysteria , inhibition , insanity , instability , madness , maladjustment , mental illness , neurasthenia , obsession , personality disorder , phobia , psychological disorder , psychopathynotes:neurosis is a disorder of the central nervous system and it has come to be used as a shortened form of psychoneurosis , a mildly disturbing emotional or physical condition brought on by a mental state , while psychosis is a severe emotional disturbance