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adjective

Neurotic adj.

Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; nervous; as, a neurotic disease.

Useful in disorders of, or affecting, the nerves.

Of or pertaining to neurosis (2); characteristic of neurosis (2); caused by neurosis (2).

noun

Neurotic n.

A disease seated in the nerves.

(Med.) Any toxic agent whose action is mainly directed to the great nerve centers. Note: Neurotics as a class include all those poisons whose main action is upon the brain and spinal cord. They may be divided into three orders: (a) Cerebral neurotics, or those which affect the brain only. (b) Spinal neurotics, or tetanics, those which affect the spinal cord. (c) Cerebro-spinal neurotics, or those which affect both brain and spinal cord.

A person afflicted with a neurosis (2).

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Etymology of 'Neurotic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Neurotic" Quotes from Famous Books

... No amount of foot-wiping could render the hired man fit for the kitchen steps after milking time—he used a step-ladder to bring up the milk to the back porch. Such intensity of attention to detail could not long fail to make this degenerating neurotic take note of her own body, which gradually became more and more sensitive, till she was fairly distraught between her fear of draughts and her mania for ventilation. It was windows up and windows down, opening the dampers and closing the dampers, something for her shoulders ...

— Our Nervous Friends - Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness • Robert S. Carroll

... negroes showed no signs of abating. A black "prophet," a full-blooded negro named Bedward, made his appearance, and gained a great following. Bedward, dressed in a discarded British naval uniform, and attended by a neurotic bodyguard of screaming, hysterical negresses, made continual triumphal parades through the streets of Kingston. As far as I could ascertain the most important item in his religious crusade was the baptism of his converts in the Hope River, at a uniform charge ...

— Here, There And Everywhere • Lord Frederic Hamilton

... a hysterical man, and this is not a neurotic story. It is, as a matter of fact, the same old rot to which the shilling shockers have made us accustomed. I cannot account in any way for my experiences last night in the Haunted Room, but they certainly were not due to nervousness. I had not been asleep long before I had a most curious ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 8, 1890 • Various

... her moral being was overweening egotism. Her dominant faculty, her intellectual axis, so to speak, was imagination—an imagination nourished upon a wide range of literature, connected with her sex and perpetually stimulated by neurotic excitement. Possessed of a certain degree of intellectual capacity, brought up in all the luxury of a princely Roman house—that papal luxury which is made up of art and history—she had received a thin coating of aesthetic varnish, had acquired a graceful taste, and, having ...

— The Child of Pleasure • Gabriele D'Annunzio

... of all the crazy cases of mass-hysteria—that baseball-game riot in Baltimore; the time everybody started tearing off each others' clothes in Milwaukee; the sex-orgy in New Orleans. And the sharp uptrend in individual psycho-neurotic and psychotic behavior. All in connection with music, too, and all after Evri-Flave got ...

— Hunter Patrol • Henry Beam Piper and John J. McGuire

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