neurosis
noun/nʊˈroʊsɪs/
Frequency rank: #19,124 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
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 a mild neurosis that made it hard to leave her house without checking the locks three times.
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