psychoneurosis

Questions about psychoneurosis

What does psychoneurosis mean?

psychoneurosis means "a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction".

How many syllables are in psychoneurosis?

psychoneurosis has 6 syllables and divides as psy-cho-ne-u-ro-sis under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for psychoneurosis?

Close synonyms include neurosis, neuroticism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is psychoneurosis a common word?

psychoneurosis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.