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Bleulerian

Bleulerian adjective: of or relating to Paul Eugen Bleuler (1857–1939), Swiss psychiatrist who studied mental illness and coined the term schizophrenia.

Adjective

Bleulerian (comparative more Bleulerian, superlative most Bleulerian)

  1. Of or relating to Paul Eugen Bleuler (1857–1939), Swiss psychiatrist who studied mental illness and coined the term schizophrenia.
    • His thinking and speaking became more and more splintered, and full of neologisms; words and even fragments of words broke up, re-assorted, and were given new meanings; he now spoke in a very accelerated Bleulerian 'word salad,' brilliant in a way, but very difficult to follow[…]1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

Forms of Bleulerian

comparativemore Bleulerian
superlativemost Bleulerian

Origin of Bleulerian

From Bleuler + -ian.

Questions about Bleulerian

What does Bleulerian mean?
Bleulerian means of or relating to Paul Eugen Bleuler (1857–1939), Swiss psychiatrist who studied mental illness and coined the term schizophrenia.
What part of speech is Bleulerian?
Bleulerian is an adjective.

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