pithiaticadj.
/ˌpɪθɪˈatɪk/, U.S. /ˌpɪθiˈædɪk/ Psychology. Now chiefly historical.
Of, relating to, or characterized by pithiatism.
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1910 Lippincott's New Med. Dict. 740/2 Pithiatic.
1918 J. D. Rolleston tr. J. Babinski Hysteria or Pithiatism p. xv Among the various nervous phenomena observed in the neurology of war it is most important to distinguish hysterical or pithiatic disorders.
1930 P. D. Kerrison Dis. of Ear (ed. 4) xxii. 551 Pithiatic deafness..is at its inception a veritable deafness, the inevitable sequence of a shock to the perceptive labyrinth, which could have had no other result.
1993 Isis 84 522 The idea of the anxiety disorders, unlike the psychasthenic and pithiatic concepts, thrived in twentieth-century European and American psychiatry.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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