neurosis
noun/nʊˈroʊsɪs/
Frequency rank: #19,124 most common English word
Meaning
A mild mental disorder involving anxiety, obsessive thoughts, or irrational fears, without loss of contact with reality.
Example sentence
After years of stress at work, she developed neurosis that made it hard to leave her house without checking the locks three times.
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