单词 | parapathy |
释义 | > as lemmasparapathy parapathy n. Brit. /pəˈrapəθi/ , U.S. /pəˈræpəθi/ (also parapathia) Psychiatry †(a) moral insanity, psychopathy (obsolete); (b) (esp. in the terminology of W. Stekel) neurosis (now rare).ΚΠ 1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II. 290/1 Parapathia, moral insanity. 1923 R. Gabler tr. W. Stekel Conditions Nerv. Anxiety xxxiii. 374 Who knows whether the future may not astonish us by showing that melancholy is only a variety of a parapathia. 1929 Med. Jrnl. & Rec. 129 264/2 From these various childhood attachments parapathies result which prevent a complete transference of the love life to a suitable love object. 1960 L. E. Hinsie & R. J. Campbell Psychiatric Dict. (ed. 3) 530/2 Parapathy, Stekel's term for neurosis; he objects to the word neurosis because connotatively it indicates a functional nervous disorder. < as lemmas |
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