Retrodiagnose
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To retroactively diagnose a dead person with a medical or psychological condition.
"Rather than retrodiagnosing colonial patients through glimpses and gaps in their stories—was this one a paranoid schizophrenic? did that one suffer major depressive psychosis? was a third borderline?— […]"
Example
More examples"Rather than retrodiagnosing colonial patients through glimpses and gaps in their stories—was this one a paranoid schizophrenic? did that one suffer major depressive psychosis? was a third borderline?— […]"
Etymology
From retro- + diagnose.
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