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surgically induced childhood

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.00 in modern English

Syllables
sur-gi-cal-ly in-duced child-hood
IPA
46
Scrabble Score
26
Letters
6
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An infantile personality resulting from lobotomy, once thought to be an interim stage toward maturation and recovery from the original condition that lobotomy had been used to treat.

Uncountable

Etymology

Coined by Walter Jackson Freeman II.

Usage

Questions

What does surgically induced childhood mean?
An infantile personality resulting from lobotomy, once thought to be an interim stage toward maturation and recovery from the original condition that lobotomy had been used to treat.
Where does surgically induced childhood come from?
Coined by Walter Jackson Freeman II.

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