Krafft-Ebing

[ kraft-eb-ing, krahft-; German krahft-ey-bingk ]

noun
  1. Rich·ard [rich-erd; German rikh-ahrt], /ˈrɪtʃ ərd; German ˈrɪx ɑrt/, Baron von, 1840–1902, German neurologist and author of works on sexual pathology.

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How to use Krafft-Ebing in a sentence

  • Krafft-Ebing said that he never saw a case of true and reasonably well developed paranoia without hereditary taint.

  • The corresponding condition in women was by von Krafft-Ebing termed viraginity.

  • Moll, Krafft-Ebing and Hirschfeld have written at great length on sexual inversion.

    The Sexual Question | August Forel
  • Krafft-Ebing is wrong in maintaining that in all such cases the women are always neurotic.

    The Sexual Question | August Forel
  • Concerning sexual psycho-pathology I have followed the classification of Krafft-Ebing.

    The Sexual Question | August Forel

British Dictionary definitions for Krafft-Ebing

Krafft-Ebing

/ (German ˈkraftˈeːbɪŋ) /


noun
  1. Richard (ˈrɪçart), Baron von Krafft-Ebing. 1840–1902, German neurologist and psychiatrist who pioneered the systematic study of sexual behaviour in Psychopathia Sexualis (1886)

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