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anankastia

anankastia noun: a personality trait domain characterized by perfectionism and rigid control over behaviour and affect.

Noun

anankastia (uncountable)

  1. A personality trait domain characterized by perfectionism and rigid control over behaviour and affect.
    • For the ICD-11, there is a scale of the severity of personality pathology that ranges from “personality difficulty” to “mild,” “moderate,” and “severe” personality disorder, which represent the only personality disorder “diagnoses” in the system. The designation of “personality difficulty”...2024 September 24, Andrew E. Skodol, “Dimensional Model of Personality Disorder Incorporated Into ICD-11”, in Psychiatric News, volume 56, number 10, →DOI

Questions about anankastia

What does anankastia mean?
Anankastia means a personality trait domain characterized by perfectionism and rigid control over behaviour and affect.
What part of speech is anankastia?
Anankastia is a noun.

Words near anankastia in the dictionary

  1. Ananindeua
  2. Ananism
  3. Ananite
  4. Ananites
  5. Ananiv
  6. anankastia
  7. anankastic
  8. anankastics
  9. ananke
  10. Anankean
  11. Ananse

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