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neuroticizing

neuroticizing is the present participle and gerund of neuroticize.

Meaning of neuroticize

Verb

neuroticize (third-person singular simple present neuroticizes, present participle neuroticizing, simple past and past participle neuroticized)

  1. (transitive) To make neurotic; to convert into a neurosis.
    • Her affects are never neuroticized, as her tics are never mannerized.1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

Questions about neuroticizing

What is neuroticizing the present participle and gerund of?
Neuroticizing is the present participle and gerund of neuroticize.

Words near neuroticizing in the dictionary

  1. neuroticistic
  2. neuroticization
  3. neuroticize
  4. neuroticized
  5. neuroticizes
  6. neuroticizing
  7. neurotics
  8. neurotization
  9. neurotizations
  10. neurotize
  11. neurotized

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