psychoneurosis 1
noundomain: state
Princeton WordNet [ver.3.1]
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EnglishDefinition
a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction
Hypernym
(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
EnglishDerivationally related form
psychoneurotic 1
adjective
affected with emotional disorder
Hyponym
hysteria 3
noun
neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions
characterized by diffuse anxiety and often somatic manifestations of fear
in existential psychiatry, the neurotic symptomatology resulting from existential frustration.
