Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cathectic

/kəˈθɛktɪk/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cathec-tic
IPA: /kəˈθɛktɪk/

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to a connection that is charged with emotional energy.

Example Sentences

"What we are dealing with here is more cathectic energy than the quota of affect as such, but the second is included in the first, as the following quotation shows:"
"Viewing animals inside an enclosure bounded by barriers agitates many people simply because the perspective seems wrong. This remnant of modernism is perhaps the most cathectic concern and source of the sometimes intense criticism of zoos."
"Nowhere is this contestation between purity, pleasure, and danger more clearly expressed than in gnotobiology's most cathectic public image: the boy in the bubble."

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek καθεκτικός (kathektikós, “capable of retaining”)

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: καθεκτικός

Inflected Forms

more cathectic (comparative) most cathectic (superlative)

Derived Forms

anticathectic countercathectic

Rhymes With

eclectic hectic dialectic apoplectic symplectic eutectic smectic anorectic pectic acatalectic catalectic pyrectic

Questions

How do you pronounce cathectic?: The recorded pronunciation is /kəˈθɛktɪk/.
What does cathectic mean?: Of or pertaining to a connection that is charged with emotional energy.
Where does cathectic come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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