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Reichian

adjective, noun

Reichian is an adjective meaning “Relating to or influenced by the Austrian psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) and his therapeutic methods” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-I-C-H-I-A-N, and it appears about once in every 98 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does Reichian mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Relating to or influenced by the Austrian psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) and his therapeutic methods.

  2. 2

    Of or relating to Charles A. Reich (1928–2019), American academic whose 1970 book The Greening of America was a paean to the counterculture of the 1960s.

noun

  1. 1

    A follower of Reich or his methods.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of Reichian

  • more Reichian comparative
  • most Reichian superlative
  • Reichians plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is Reichian?

Reichian appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does Reichian come from?

From Reich + -ian.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).