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Neurotic vs Traumatic - What's the difference?

neurotic | traumatic |

As adjectives the difference between neurotic and traumatic

is that neurotic is affected with a neurosis while traumatic is traumatic.

As a noun neurotic

is a person who has a neurosis.

neurotic

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Affected with a neurosis.
  • (lb) Overly anxious.
  • *
  • *:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men,!”
  • *
  • (lb) Useful in disorders of, or affecting, the nerves.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who has a neurosis
  • Anagrams

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    traumatic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of, caused by, or causing trauma
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter VII , passage=It's a sort of disease. There's a scientific name for it. Trau- something. Traumatic' symplegia, that's it. This cat has ' traumatic symplegia. In other words, putting it in simple language adapted to the lay mind, where other cats are content to get their eight hours, Augustus wants his twenty-four.}}
  • * 2011 , September 18, Don Thompson and Ken Ritter, “Reno air race crash scene shows violence of impact”, Associated Press:
  • "I've seen more patients, but never this many patients with this number of severe injuries," said Dr. Michael Morkin, chief of Renown's emergency department. "It was traumatic ."
  • (medicine, dated) Of or relating to wounds; applied to wounds.
  • (Coxe)
  • (dated) Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary.
  • (Wiseman)
  • Produced by wounds.
  • traumatic tetanus

    Antonyms

    * non-traumatic * nontraumatic * untraumatic

    Derived terms

    * traumatic amenorrhea * traumatic amputation * traumatic anesthesia * traumatic arrest * traumatic asphyxia * traumatic brain injury

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated, medicine) A medicine for wounds; a vulnerary.