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psychoneurotic

[sahy-koh-noo-rot-ik, -nyoo-] / ˌsaɪ koʊ nʊˈrɒt ɪk, -njʊ- /




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Her use of bold 1970s-inspired trippy straight lines and hippie flowers reflects in many ways the push-pull of a scientist undergoing a psychoneurotic fantasy.

From Seattle Times Dec. 12, 2011

The reader is apt to get the impression that the term, psychoneurotic, means the same thing as paranoiac.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dr. Menninger's summary: in World War II, Custer, for all his dashing aggressiveness, would have been discharged as a psychoneurotic.

From Time Magazine Archive

Church members are proud of the fact that of 634 of their boys in the armed forces not one was discharged for psychoneurotic reasons.

From Time Magazine Archive

She is a mild psychoneurotic type, exhibiting under stress unusual mental phenomena.

From Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology by William Healy




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