dereistic
dereistic adjective: not in accordance with reality; subjective, founded in fantasy.
Adjective
dereistic (comparative more dereistic, superlative most dereistic)
- Not in accordance with reality; subjective, founded in fantasy.
- [H]aving learned a lot about the mechanisms of the symptoms […], it will help in the treatment of other patients whom we might have the good fortune of seeing in childhood, or early in the disease, or perhaps before the patient resorts to dereistic mechanisms.1946, A. A. Brill, Lectures on Psychoanalytic Psychiatry, Alfred Knopf, page 128
dereistic meaning in Tamil
dereistic in Tamil
- சுய, தன்மகிழ்வெண்ணம், அல்மெய்
Forms of dereistic
| comparative | more dereistic |
|---|---|
| superlative | most dereistic |
Origin of dereistic
From Latin de re (“away from the thing”) + -istic.
Questions about dereistic
- What does dereistic mean?
- Dereistic means not in accordance with reality; subjective, founded in fantasy.
- What is dereistic in Tamil?
- Dereistic in Tamil is சுய, தன்மகிழ்வெண்ணம், அல்மெய். See Dereistic meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is dereistic?
- Dereistic is an adjective.
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