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somaticize

American  
[suh-mat-uh-sahyz, soh-muh-tuh-] / səˈmæt əˌsaɪz, ˈsoʊ mə tə- /
especially British, somaticise

verb (used with object)

Psychiatry.
somaticized, somaticizing
  1. to convert (anxiety) into physical symptoms.


Other Word Forms

Etymology

Origin of somaticize

somatic + -ize

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She describes being presumed to have somaticized grief and trauma, an explanation that, she says, seems to erase “the obdurate reality of the body.”

From New York Times Mar. 1, 2022

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