self-diagnosis
self-diagnosis noun: an attempt to identify medical conditions in oneself.
Noun
self-diagnosis (countable and uncountable, plural self-diagnoses)
- An attempt to identify medical conditions in oneself.
- Redding’s study asked four psychologists with expertise in anxiety and depressive disorders to rate each self-help book on five criteria: how scientifically grounded the book is; whether there are guidelines for self-diagnosis, […]2019 May 2, Nina Avramova, “When you should use self-help programs and when to skip them”, in CNN, archived from the original on 13 Jun 2025
- For everyone else, a self-diagnosis of depression is error prone and may provide a seriously incomplete picture.2021, Jonathan Rottenberg, Depression: What Everyone Needs to Know, page 25
- The ability of a system to identify problems within itself.
- A self-diagnosis circuit that can be used for built-in self-repair is proposed.2012, Issues in Computer Science and Theory: 2011 Edition, page 116
Forms of self-diagnosis
| plural | self-diagnoses |
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Origin of self-diagnosis
From self- + diagnosis.
Questions about self-diagnosis
- What does self-diagnosis mean?
- Self-diagnosis means an attempt to identify medical conditions in oneself.
- What part of speech is self-diagnosis?
- Self-diagnosis is a noun.
- What is the plural of self-diagnosis?
- The plural of self-diagnosis is self-diagnoses.
Words near self-diagnosis in the dictionary
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