neurosis
n. 1. (psychology) a
mental condition you adopt in order to appear more interesting to yourself and others, thereby ensuring that
you have lots of things to talk about. 2. what most people have instead of a life. 3. the tendency,
encouraged by family, friends, and therapists, to interminably ask
onesself probing questions that can never be answered. See
neurotic, introspection, introversion,
introvert. 4. a substitute for legitimate suffering. [Carl Jung]
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