Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a symptomatic manner; by means of symptoms; in the nature of symptoms.
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- adverb In a
symptomatic manner;diagnostically .
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- adverb by symptoms
Etymologies
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Examples
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"We didn't have enough pace in our side, we couldn't get up with the centre-forward and symptomatically we couldn't play out from the back or start an attack."
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A study of 7,114 adolescents ages 10 to 14 showed that those who ate the least-healthy diets were 79 percent more likely to be symptomatically depressed, compared to those with the healthiest diets.
Maria Rodale: The Holiday Foods That Will Boost Your Mood Maria Rodale 2011
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Such latencies compel us to read the evidence of Romanticism always symptomatically rather than definitively.
Introduction 2008
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In his inability to construct a coherent novel Cheever was similar to that other great storyteller, Chekhov, who worked for two years on a never-completed novel called, symptomatically, "Stories from the Lives of My Friends."
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In this sense, I'm Still Here intentionally verifies its unreality through certain bodily clues, but begs this feminist viewer to consider what it symptomatically disappears, what it doesn't show without knowing.
Alexandra Juhasz: Casey Affleck's Biggest Reveal: Fake Doc, Joaquin's Tummy or Tranny Prostitutes? 2010
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Moreover, as the figure that orchestrates this end in the same way that the Trinity had done in 1811, magnetic sleep symptomatically embodies the very essence of transcendental idealism as a philosophy that produces itself inside itself through a hypnotism of itself, thus sidestepping the labour of the negative.
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008
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In his inability to construct a coherent novel Cheever was similar to that other great storyteller, Chekhov, who worked for two years on a never-completed novel called, symptomatically, "Stories from the Lives of My Friends."
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If we're on the right track, the patient generally improves, either symptomatically or in his or her ability to take on certain emotional and developmental challenges.
Michael Bader, D.M.H.: Why We Need a "Practical Psychoanalysis" D.M.H. Michael Bader 2010
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If we're on the right track, the patient generally improves, either symptomatically or in his or her ability to take on certain emotional and developmental challenges.
Michael Bader, D.M.H.: Why We Need a "Practical Psychoanalysis" 2010
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Finally, in this sense, watching "I'm Still Here" as a fake documentary that intentionally reveals certain bodily clues to verify that it is not real, begs this feminist viewer to consider what it symptomatically disappears, what it doesn't show without knowing.
Alexandra Juhasz: Casey Affleck's Biggest Reveal: Fake Doc, Joaquin's Tummy or Tranny Prostitutes? Alexandra Juhasz 2010
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