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ALIENIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does alienist mean?
• ALIENIST (noun)
The noun ALIENIST has 1 sense:
1. a psychiatrist and specialist in the legal aspects of mental illness
Familiarity information: ALIENIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A psychiatrist and specialist in the legal aspects of mental illness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("alienist" is a kind of...):
head-shrinker; psychiatrist; shrink (a physician who specializes in psychiatry)
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