analysand
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of analysand
First recorded in 1930–35; analys(e) + -and as in multiplicand
Example Sentences
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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.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2021
The most philosophical way to abandon them was therapeutically: one could relive the philosophical past the same way an analysand relives her emotional past.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 10, 2017
As an analysand and an armchair analyst, I can’t help suspecting that whether they consciously know it or not, people like Jeff Bezos and the New Republic’s Chris Hughes want some of that.
From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2015
It is normally a requirement that the analyst meet the analysand, but as Hitler was busy with other matters this could not be arranged.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 1, 2012
Although there may be some truth in both hypotheses, this sort of posthumous off-the-rack psychoanalysis is a dubious, highly speculative enterprise that inevitably demeans and trivializes the absent analysand.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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