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n. - Nervous system disorders marked by anxiety and paranoia.

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  • Over this garden of female neuroses is laid the larger template of American Women in Financial Jeopardy … a topic I’m finding increasingly troubling, gnawing.
  • But more important than my neuroses is the electricity surrounding ChatRoulette: it reeks of something whose significance we can feel, but haven't fully defined yet.
  • She's a baby, for God's sake-what kind of neuroses could she have?
  • The Edinburgh Medical Dictionary place syncope in the class of "neuroses".
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