psychoneurotic
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From psycho- + neurotic, after psychoneurosis.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
psychoneurotic (comparative more psychoneurotic, superlative most psychoneurotic)
- Pertaining to or suffering from a psychoneurosis.
Noun[edit]
psychoneurotic (plural psychoneurotics)
- Someone suffering from a psychoneurosis.
- 1999, Sigmund Freud, translated by Joyce Crick, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford, published 2008, page 114:
- As I have mentioned, when I undertake the analysis of a psychoneurotic [translating Psychoneurotiker] his dreams are regularly the subject of our discussions.