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unitary psychosis

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.84 in modern English

Syllables
uni-tary psy-chosis
IPA
29
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

According to 19th-century German psychiatry, a single underlying disease process of which all psychoses were surface variations.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Calque of German Einheitspsychose

Usage

Inflected Forms

unitary psychoses (plural)

Questions

What does unitary psychosis mean?
According to 19th-century German psychiatry, a single underlying disease process of which all psychoses were surface variations.
Where does unitary psychosis come from?
Calque of German Einheitspsychose

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