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Neuroticism

noun

A mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction. Synonyms: neurosis, psychoneurosis.

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"Neuroticism" Quotes from Famous Books

... easy ways, even though they come to one as the reward of brainwork, lead to a certain flabbiness in life, lead to many moments when you have to stop and ask whether things are worth while, lead sometimes, I think, to that curious neuroticism from which clever, successful people suffer as well as the butterflies of fashion. You are up against it now, Julien, real and hard. You don't feel that you've got a day to live that you care a snap of the fingers about. You look at what you think are ...

— The Mischief Maker • E. Phillips Oppenheim

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