| Main Entry: | neurosis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental disturbance, disorder |
Synonyms: |
aberration, abnormality, affliction, breakdown, compulsion, crack-up, derangement, deviation, hysteria, inhibition, insanity, instability, madness, maladjustment, mental illness, neurasthenia, obsession, personality disorder, phobia, psychological disorder, psychopathy |
| Notes: | neurosis is a disorder of the central nervous system and it has come to be used as a shortened form of psychoneurosis, a mildly disturbing emotional or physical condition brought on by a mental state, while psychosis is a severe emotional disturbance |
Antonyms: |
adjustment, balance, sanity |
| Main Entry: | breakdown |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nervous collapse |
Synonyms: |
basket case, crackup, disintegration, disruption, failure, mishap, nervous prostration, neurasthenia, neurosis, psychasthenia |
Antonyms: |
mental health |
| Main Entry: | cabin fever |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anxiety caused by living in isolation or indoors for a long period of time |
Synonyms: |
SAD, claustrophobia, climbing the walls, climbing the walls, distress, neurosis, restlessness, seasonal affective disorder, temporary insanity, winter blues |
| Main Entry: | complex |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | psychological problem |
Synonyms: |
a thing about something, anxiety, exaggerated reaction, fear, fixation, fixed idea, hang-up, idée fixe, insanity, mania, neurosis, obsession, phobia, preoccupation, repression |
| Notes: | something complex may be well-organized and logically constructed as well as subtle and intricate, while a thing that is complicated will have something irregular, perverse, asymmetrical in addition to fundamental intricacy; complex is more formal and technical (a problem in mathematics is complex) while something like personal life can be complicated |
| Main Entry: | insanity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental illness; foolishness |
Synonyms: |
aberration, absurdity, alienation, craziness, delirium, delusion, dementia, derangement, distraction, dotage, folly, frenzy, hallucination, hysteria, illusion, inanity, irrationality, irresponsibility, lunacy, madness, mania, mental disorder, neurosis, phobia, preposterousness, psychopathy, psychosis, senselessness, unbalance, unreasonableness, witlessness |
Antonyms: |
balance, sanity, soundness, wellness |
| Main Entry: | madness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insanity |
Synonyms: |
aberration, absurdity, craziness, delirium, delusion, dementia, derangement, fanaticism, foolishness, hysteria, irrationality, lunacy, madness, mania, mental disorder, mental illness, neurosis, phobia, psychopathy, psychosis, stupidity, unbalance |
| Main Entry: | mental illness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emotional disorder |
Synonyms: |
craziness, delusions, depression, derangement, disturbed mind, emotional disorder, emotional instability, insanity, loss of mind, lunacy, madness, maladjustment, mania, mental disease, mental disorder, mental sickness, nervous breakdown, nervous disorder, neurosis, neurotic disorder, paranoia, personality disorder, phobia, psychopathy, psychosis, schizophrenia, sick mind, troubled mind, unbalanced mind, unsoundness of mind |
| Main Entry: | nervous breakdown |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental exhaustion |
Synonyms: |
burnout, burnout, clinical depression, collapse, crackup, crackup, depression, emotional collapse, mental collapse, nervous exhaustion, nervous prostration, neurasthenia, neurosis, shattered nerves |
| Main Entry: | obsession |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fixation; consumption with belief, desire |
Synonyms: |
attraction, ax to grind, bug in ear, case*, complex, compulsion, concrete idea, craze*, crush, delusion, enthusiasm, fancy, fascination, fetish, hang-up, idée fixe, infatuation, mania, monkey*, must, neurosis, one-track mind, passion, phantom, phobia, preoccupation, something on the brain, thing*, tiger by the tail |
Antonyms: |
indifference |
| Main Entry: | phobia |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fear |
Synonyms: |
anxiety, aversion, avoidance, awe, detestation, disgust, dislike, distaste, dread, fear, hang-up, hatred, horror, irrationality, loathing, neurosis, obsession, repulsion, resentment, revulsion, terror, thing about, thing* |
Antonyms: |
liking, love |