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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A condition of exalted or perverted nervous or psychic action.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The quality or state of being neurotic

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction

Etymologies

  1. neurotic +‎ -ism (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Change in neuroticism tied to mortality rates, researcher says”

    April 16th, 2007

  • “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.”

    CNN Transcript Feb 21, 2005

  • “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.”

    CNN Transcript Nov 17, 2004

  • “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.”

    The Washington Post: Evolutionary psychology explores ancient and newer roots of instinctual fears

  • “This may cause a hysterical fit that turns into physical symptoms such as neuroticism, panic”

    Yemen Observer

  • “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.”

    China Post Online - Taiwan , News , Taiwan newspaper

  • “For instance, guess which states are the highest-scoring states in 'neuroticism'.”

    Vanishing American

  • “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).”

    Jared Gardner: Video Gamers at the End of History

  • “Assessing personality measures such as neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness [”

    Journal of Medical Internet Research

  • “As Maj, a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Naples, wrote, "bereavement-related depression is significantly less likely than other loss-related depression to be associated with treatment seeking and substantial functional impairment, and is marked by significantly lower levels of neuroticism and guilt.”

    The Huffington Post: Robert David Jaffee: Aggrieved Over Grief As A Diagnosis In DSM

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