Origin: Greek suffix -osis
Neurosis has 2 different meanings across 1 category:
a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction
A mental disorder, less severe than psychosis, marked by anxiety or fear which differ from normal measures by their intensity, which disorder results from a failure to compromise or properly adjust during the developmental stages of life, between normal human instinctual impulses and the demands of human society.