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neuroses

Noun

The word is derived from neurosis

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I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match. Arthur Miller

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers. Robert A. Heinlein

What's to explain? I've scant use for those types whose chief interest is their grubby little personal neuroses. Not in a universe as rich as this. Poul Anderson

Let's get rid of Infirmary Feminism, with its bedlam of bellyachers, anorexics, bulimics, depressives, rape victims, and incest survivors. Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses. Camille Paglia

I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on the work. Anna Silk

A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you. Harold Ramis

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