Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

kraepelinian

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
krae-pelini-an
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Relating to Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926), German psychiatrist who believed that psychiatric disorders were the result of biological and genetic malfunction.

noun

A follower of Emil Kraepelin's approach.

Etymology

From German Kraepelin + -ian.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

Phrases

neo-Kraepelinian

Questions

What does kraepelinian mean?
Relating to Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926), German psychiatrist who believed that psychiatric disorders were the result of biological and genetic malfunction.
Where does kraepelinian come from?
From German Kraepelin + -ian.

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