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anankastics

anankastics is the plural of anankastic.

Meaning of anankastic

Noun

anankastic (plural anankastics)

  1. An anankastic phrase or utterance.
  2. (rare) An obsessive-compulsive individual.
    • 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.2012, Matthew R. Broome, The Maudsley Reader in Phenomenological Psychiatry, page 235
    Synonyms:
    anancastic

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Questions about anankastics

What is anankastics the plural of?
Anankastics is the plural of anankastic.

Words near anankastics in the dictionary

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

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