dereistic

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adjective

Not in accordance with reality; subjective, founded in fantasy.

OriginLatin de re →
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Meanings

adjectivedereistic (comparative more dereistic, superlative most dereistic)

comparative more dereistic · superlative most dereistic

  1. datedhuman sciencesNot in accordance with reality; subjective, founded in fantasy.

    [H]aving learned a lot about the mechanisms of the symptoms […], it will help in the treatment of other patients whom we might have the good fortune of seeing in childhood, or early in the disease, or perhaps before the patient resorts to dereistic mechanisms.

    1946, A. A. Brill, Lectures on Psychoanalytic Psychiatry, Alfred Knopf, page 128

Origin

  1. Latinde re“away from the thing”
  2. Englishdereistic

From Latin de re (“away from the thing”) + -istic.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dereistic,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dereistic.

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