analysand
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of analysand
First recorded in 1930–35; analys(e) + -and as in multiplicand
Example Sentences
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Yet listening to her describe her work, she sounds as much an analysand as a performer.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2016
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
Like a dedicated analysand, Germany has brought its past to the surface, endlessly discussed it, and accepted it, and this work of many years has freed the patient to lead a successful new life.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 24, 2014
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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