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Date "NEUROSES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Functional derangement due to disorders of the nervous system which does not affect the psychic personality of the patient. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: NEUROSES |
| Specialty definitions using "NEUROSES": Anti-Anxiety Agents, Benzodiazepine. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "NEUROSES": Neurosis. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Arthur Miller | I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | It is also important to determine if there have been previous psychiatric illnesses such as depression or neuroses. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "NEUROSES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "NEUROSES" is used about 46 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 46 | 50,285 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "NEUROSES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | Neurosen. (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | neurózis (neurosis, neurotic), idegbetegség (neurosis). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | eurosesnay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "NEUROSES": aponeuroses, psychoneuroses. (additional references) | |
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"NEUROSES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eurosud, Naufrages, neorosis, neourosis, netrasess, neucrosis, neuosis, Neuraker, neurones, neurosal, neurose, neurosed, neurosus, Neutromed, Newroses, Nuhomes, nurofen, nurosis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "NEUROSES" (pronounced nuhrō"sēz) |
| 4 | -ō" s ē z | diagnoses, misdiagnoses, prognoses. |
| 3 | -s ē z | accuracies, agencies, archdiocese, autopsies, bankruptcies, biopsies, bureaucracies, candidacies, competencies, conspiracies, constituencies, contingencies, controversies, courtesies, crises, cruces, currencies, deficiencies, delicacies, delinquencies, democracies, dependencies, discrepancies, efficiencies, embassies, emergencies, epilepsies, excellencies, exigencies, expectancies, fallacies, fancies, fantasies, frequencies, galaxies, gypsies, inaccuracies, inadequacies, inconsistencies, inefficiencies, insolvencies, insurgencies, intricacies, jealousies, legacies, malignancies, maxis, mercies, nazis, oases, patsies, pharmacies, policies, posses, pregnancies, presidencies, privacies, prophecies, prostheses, proxies, redundancies, residencies, taxis, tendencies, theses, transparencies, vacancies. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-n-o-r-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: ensures, senores. | |
-2 letters: ensues, ensure, enures, eroses, nouses, nurses, onuses, reuses, rouens, rouses, senors, sensor, serous, sneers, snores. | |
-3 letters: ensue, enure, ernes, erose, erses, euros, noses, nurse, reuse, roses, rouen, roues, rouse, runes, ruses, seers, senor, sense, seres, sneer, snore, sones, sores, sorns, sorus, sours, souse, suers, users. | |
-4 letters: eons, erne, erns, eros, eses. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-n-o-r-s-s-u" | |
+2 letters: dournesses, enclosures, rousements, sournesses. | |
+3 letters: aponeuroses, countersues, greenhouses, houseperson, journaleses, nervousness, obscureness, onerousness, overinsures, profuseness, questioners, reconquests, roughnesses, roundedness, roundnesses, seriousness, southerners, superperson, underbosses, underscores, unprocessed, unprofessed. | |
+4 letters: adenoviruses, cocksureness, counterposes, counterspies, countersteps, decorousness, desirousness, enormousness, fluoresceins, fluorescents, forcefulness, generousness, gorgeousness, grievousness, groundsheets, gruesomeness, houseparents, housepersons, intercourses, neurosensory, neutrinoless, nonreusables, numerousness, obdurateness, oleoresinous, outsiderness, overconsumes, overissuance, perilousness, persecutions, perviousness, porousnesses, preciousness, previousness, pronucleuses, ravenousness, rendezvouses, repercussion, resoluteness, robustnesses, rotundnesses, seleniferous, seminiferous, southeastern, southernness, southwestern, stonecutters, superpersons, supersensory, supersession, supersurgeon, superweapons, suspensories, underexposes, understories, unresponsive, uprootedness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 45 55 52 4F 53 45 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. . ..- .-. --- ... . ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01000101 01010101 01010010 01001111 01010011 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N E U R O S E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0045 0055 0052 004F 0053 0045 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4839555249533953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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