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NEUROTICISM
Definition of NEUROTICISM
noun
The quality or state of being neurotic
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From neurotic + -ism.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
NEUROTICISM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 45, 4 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 95, 23 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 45, 4 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
NEUROTICISM starts with N and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read CEIIMNORSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start NEUROTI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found NEUROTICISM?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 45 - and most players walked straight past it.
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