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psychoanalyst

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A practitioner of psychoanalysis.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: analyst

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: psychiatrist, head-shrinker, shrink

Narrower terms: Freud, Sigmund Freud, Klein, Melanie Klein, Reich, Wilhelm Reich

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek ψῡχή (psūkhḗ) Ancient Greek ψῡχο- (psūkho-)der. English psycho- English analyst English psychoanalyst From psycho- + analyst.

Across languages

Translations

26 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: психоаналитик (psihoanalitik) — practitioner
  • Catalan: psicoanalista — practitioner
  • Czech: psychoanalytik — practitioner
  • Esperanto: psikanalizisto — practitioner
  • Finnish: psykoanalyytikko — practitioner
  • French: psychanalyste — practitioner
  • Galician: psicanalista — practitioner
  • Georgian: ფსიქოანალიტიკოსი (psikoanaliṭiḳosi) — practitioner
  • German: Psychoanalytiker — practitioner
  • Greek: ψυχαναλυτής (psychanalytís) — practitioner
  • Hungarian: pszichoanalitikus — practitioner
  • Irish: síocanailísí — practitioner
  • Italian: psicoanalista — practitioner
  • Norwegian Bokmål: psykoanalytiker — practitioner
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: psykoanalytikar — practitioner
  • Persian: روانکاو (ravân'-kâv) — practitioner
  • Polish: psychoanalityk — practitioner
  • Polish: psychoanalityczka — practitioner
  • Romanian: psihanalist — practitioner
  • Romanian: psihanalistă — practitioner
  • Serbo-Croatian: психоаналѝтича̄р — practitioner
  • Serbo-Croatian: psihoanalìtičār — practitioner
  • Spanish: psicoanalista — practitioner
  • Swedish: psykoanalytiker — practitioner
  • Turkish: psikanalist — practitioner
  • Yiddish: פּסיכאָאַנאַליטיקער (psikhoanalitiker) — practitioner