involutional
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of involutional
First recorded in 1905–10; involution + -al 1
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Doctors found him to be suffering from involutional melancholia and depressive psychosis.
From Time Magazine Archive
Allegedly ridden with involutional melancholia, depressive psychosis, and heart disease, Hoppy sucked cough drops to stave off a cold.
From Time Magazine Archive
The foremost cause among the middle-aged for first admissions to mental institutions is listed with the diagnosis "involutional psychosis," sometimes called "change-of-life melancholia."
From Time Magazine Archive
Electric shock is in a way a "punitive" treatment, Dr. Bailey suggested, and should be limited to the involutional anxious melancholic, a type of case in which it is sometimes spectacularly effective.
From Time Magazine Archive
We have not observed in our cases of involutional melancholia any undue tendency to give individual reactions.
From A Study of Association in Insanity by Kent, Grace Helen
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
