analysand

[ uh-nal-uh-sand, -zand ]

noun

, Psychiatry.

1. a person undergoing psychoanalysis.

analysand

/ əˈnælɪˌsænd /

noun

1. any person who is undergoing psychoanalysis

Word History and Origins

Origin of analysand¹

First recorded in 1930–35; analys(e) + -and as in multiplicand

Word History and Origins

Origin of analysand¹

C20: from analyse + -and, on the model of multiplicand

Example Sentences

As Chekhov did not quite say, if an analyst describes an analysand as a gun on Page 4, you better bet your bottom dollar that gun’s going off by Page, oh, 200 and something.

From New York Times

Unlike the naïve young analysand, we won’t be beguiled by Lucy’s blunt advice.

From The New Yorker

He’s a perfect contrast, in other words, to Nick Kyrgios, who, at only twenty-one, will lead the Australian team, and who is, of course, the game’s troubled analysand.

From The New Yorker

The spaceman becomes the most far-flung analysand in the solar system.

From New York Times

The most philosophical way to abandon them was therapeutically: one could relive the philosophical past the same way an analysand relives her emotional past.

From The New Yorker