Usually means: Heightened emotional response to stress.
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  1. neuroticism: Merriam-Webster
  2. neuroticism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. neuroticism: Collins English Dictionary
  4. neuroticism: Vocabulary.com
  5. Neuroticism, neuroticism: Wordnik
  6. neuroticism: Wiktionary
  7. neuroticism: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. neuroticism: Dictionary.com
  9. Neuroticism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. neuroticism: Rhymezone
  11. neuroticism: FreeDictionary.org
  12. neuroticism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. neuroticism: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. neuroticism: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. neuroticism: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  4. neuroticism: Medical dictionary

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▸ noun:  The quality or state of being neurotic

Similar:
neurosis, psychoneurosis, neurotic, neuroticization, nerviness, nervosity, neurotypicality, neuroqueerness, neuroatypicality, neurotoxicity, more...

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emotional stability, mental toughness, resilience

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high, low, general, more, greater, less, extreme, premorbid, infantile, adult, negative

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Similar:
neurosis, psychoneurosis, neurotic, neuroticization, nerviness, nervosity, neurotypicality, neuroqueerness, neuroatypicality, neurotoxicity, more...

Opposite:
emotional stability, mental toughness, resilience

Adjectives:
high, low, general, more, greater, less, extreme, premorbid, infantile, adult, negative

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    gray,     black,     dark blue,     olive green,     maroon, more...



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