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feighner criterion

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
feigh-n-er cri-te-ri-on
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a set of influential psychiatric diagnostic criteria developed from the late 1950s to the early 1970s.

Etymology

Named after John Feighner, the first listed author of the 1972 psychiatric paper that described them.

Inflected Forms

Feighner criteria (plural)

Questions

What does feighner criterion mean?
Any of a set of influential psychiatric diagnostic criteria developed from the late 1950s to the early 1970s.
Where does feighner criterion come from?
Named after John Feighner, the first listed author of the 1972 psychiatric paper that described them.

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