freud
/fɹɔɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.47 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist, psychotherapist, and founder of psychoanalysis.
Example Sentences
- "To assert that morality is self-evident and that one had never done a mean thing are strangely revealing statements to come from the lips of a person whose object of study was man, himself included. It reflects, I believe, Freud's unshakable determination to be a moralist in the guise of a scientist. In this endeavor, he succeeded only too well: as a cryptomoralist, Freud became the founder of a sort of secular religion which has had immense influence on popular contemporary thought and life. [...]"
Subject
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