Definition of psychoneurotics Psychoneurotics

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What does psychoneurotics mean?

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psychoneurotics, noun, plural of psychoneurotic.

WordNet

Adjective
psychoneurotic - affected with emotional disorder
		neurotic
		unneurotic not neurotic; "successful mothers--mothers with unneurotic children"; "he's the most unneurotic person I know"
		aboulic, abulic suffering from abulia; showing abnormal inability to act or make decisions
		compulsive strongly motivated to succeed
		delusional suffering from or characterized by delusions
		maladjusted, disturbed not well adjusted; "a maladjusted carburetor"
		hypochondriac, hypochondriacal suffering from hypochondria
		hysteric, hysterical characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria; "during hysterical conditions various functions of the human body are disordered"- Morris Fishbein; "hysterical amnesia"
		megalomaniacal, megalomanic suffering from megalomania
		monomaniacal obsessed with a single subject or idea
		nymphomaniac, nymphomaniacal (used of women) affected with excessive sexual desire
		obsessional, obsessive characterized by or constituting an obsession; "the obsessional character of his response"; "obsessive gambling"
		obsessive-compulsive characterized by obsessions and compulsions; "obsessive-compulsive neurosis"
		pathological caused by or evidencing a mentally disturbed condition; "a pathological liar"; "a pathological urge to succeed"
		phobic suffering from irrational fears
		psychosomatic used of illness or symptoms resulting from neurosis
Noun
psychoneurotic - a person suffering from neurosis
		neurotic, mental case
		diseased person, sick person, sufferer a person suffering from an illness
		claustrophobe a person suffering from claustrophobia
		hysteric a person suffering from hysteria
		obsessive a person who has obsessions
		obsessive-compulsive a person with obsessive-compulsive characteristics