say it: sahy-koh-uh-NAL-uh-suhs
psychoanalysis is a noun meaning "a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud". It carries one recorded sense.
a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud
“his physician recommended psychoanalysis”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for psychoanalysis come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.