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analysand

[ uh-nal-uh-sand, -zand ]

noun

Psychiatry.
  1. a person undergoing psychoanalysis.


analysand

/ əˈæɪˌæԻ /

noun

  1. any person who is undergoing psychoanalysis
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of analysand1

First recorded in 1930–35; analys(e) + -and as in multiplicand
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of analysand1

C20: from analyse + -and, on the model of multiplicand
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As Chekhov did not quite say, if an analyst describes an analysand as a gun on Page 4, you better bet your bottom dollar that gun’s going off by Page, oh, 200 and something.

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Unlike the naïve young analysand, we won’t be beguiled by Lucy’s blunt advice.

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He’s a perfect contrast, in other words, to Nick Kyrgios, who, at only twenty-one, will lead the Australian team, and who is, of course, the game’s troubled analysand.

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The spaceman becomes the most far-flung analysand in the solar system.

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The most philosophical way to abandon them was therapeutically: one could relive the philosophical past the same way an analysand relives her emotional past.

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