Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

compulsion neurosis

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.46 in modern English

Syllables: com-pul-sion neu-ro-sis
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A psychiatric disorder characterised by recurrent compulsions or compulsive ideas; obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Example Sentences

"[H]ere we are mainly interested in their negatives or the neuroses. Of this form, the most characteristic, as I already said, is the compulsion neurosis."

Etymology

Translating German Zwangsneurose.

Origin

Source language: German

Word Breakdown

Root: Zwangsneurose

Inflected Forms

compulsion neuroses (plural)

Questions

What does compulsion neurosis mean?: A psychiatric disorder characterised by recurrent compulsions or compulsive ideas; obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Where does compulsion neurosis come from?: It is traced to German.

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