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physioneurosis

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
phy-s-ioneu-ro-sis
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The somatic component of a psychosomatic ailment.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Coined by Abram Kardiner in the 1940s in an effort to replace actual neurosis, a literal translation of German Aktualneurose in Freud's work.

Usage

Inflected Forms

physioneuroses (plural)

Antonyms

psychoneurosis

Questions

What does physioneurosis mean?
The somatic component of a psychosomatic ailment.
Where does physioneurosis come from?
Coined by Abram Kardiner in the 1940s in an effort to replace actual neurosis, a literal translation of German Aktualneurose in Freud's work.

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