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patienthood

patienthood noun: the state of being a patient or of being ill.

Noun

patienthood (countable and uncountable, plural patienthoods)

  1. The state of being a patient or of being ill.
    • Because of their inability to resolve their personal crises, these assassins will project their individual patienthoods upon society and, in their attempt to universalize their personal pain, could focus on the destruction of a leading figure or monument.2006, R. Hrair Dekmejian, Spectrum of Terror
    • Getting better involves not only the ability to use the injured limbs again, but regaining the freedom to emerge “from self-absorption, sickness, patienthood, and confinement, to the spaciousness of health, of full being, of thereal world.”2014, Ruth Behar, The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart

Forms of patienthood

pluralpatienthoods

Origin of patienthood

From patient + -hood.

Questions about patienthood

What does patienthood mean?
Patienthood means the state of being a patient or of being ill.
What part of speech is patienthood?
Patienthood is a noun.
What is the plural of patienthood?
The plural of patienthood is patienthoods.

Words near patienthood in the dictionary

  1. patient zeroes
  2. patient zeros
  3. patientcare
  4. patienter
  5. patientest
  6. patienthood
  7. patienthoods
  8. patientive
  9. patientives
  10. patientless
  11. patientlike

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