Anankasticとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ænənˈkæstɪk/

形容詞

anankastic (comparative more anankastic, superlative most anankastic)

1. (grammar) Imperative, as in the anankastic conditional.
2. (psychology) Characterised by compulsion; obsessive-compulsive.
   • 1991: ‘You’re a classic anal-retentive,’ he says, ‘tirelessly absorbed by minutiae, anankastic in the extreme – it’s lucky you have me to deal with the broad sweep of things, to do the abstract thinking.’ — Will Self, ‘Mono-Cellular’, The Quantity Theory of Insanity

名詞

anankastic (plural anankastics)

1. (grammar) An anankastic phrase or utterance.
2. (psychology, rare) An obsessive-compulsive individual.

   Synonym: anancastic

   • 2012, Matthew R. Broome, The Maudsley Reader in Phenomenological Psychiatry, page 235:

     Like many anankastics, he suffers from a disturbance in the capacity to act, which is revealed especially as an impediment to beginning something new and completing something.

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