patienthood
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Because of their inability to resolve their personal crises, these assassins will project their individual patienthoods upon society and, in their attempt to universalize their personal pain, could focus on the destruction of a leading figure or monument."
- "Getting better involves not only the ability to use the injured limbs again, but regaining the freedom to emerge “from self-absorption, sickness, patienthood, and confinement, to the spaciousness of health, of full being, of thereal world.”"
- "Thus, the notion of patienthood seems to be changing from these two prevailing notions to a cultural relativistic idea that believes it to represent cultural and linguistic variations stemming from local beliefs, meanings, and practices related to the definition of health, illness, and health care seeking."
- "Here, patienthood invoked an epistemic investigation into causes and results and motivated decisions about seeking or rejecting cure."