Synonyms for neurotic
nʊˈrɒt ɪk, nyʊ-neu·rot·ic

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1. neurotic, psychoneurotic, mental caseadjective

   a person suffering from neurosis

   Synonyms:
   mental case, psychoneurotic

   Antonyms:
   together, unneurotic

2. neuroticadjective

   characteristic of or affected by neurosis

   "neurotic disorder"; "neurotic symptoms"

   Synonyms:
   psychoneurotic

   Antonyms:
   unneurotic, together

3. neurotic, psychoneuroticadjective

   affected with emotional disorder

   Synonyms:
   psychoneurotic

   Antonyms:
   unneurotic, together

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1. List of paraphrases for "neurotic":

   paranoid

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1. Paul Hokemeyer:

   One of the gifts of aging in recovery is the ability to ignore the noise and distractions of life. In long-term sobriety, people are able to focus on the qualitative aspects of their lives, like relationships, meaningful work and peace of mind, and let go of the neurotic pursuit for quantitative fulfillment, such as power, property and prestige.

2. Georges Bataille:

   The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.

3. Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (1950):

   The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

4. Thomas Szasz:

   Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.

5. Sigmund Freud:

   The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.