psychiatrisation
French, noun/psi.kja.tʁi.za.sjɔ̃/
psychiatrisation is spelled P-S-Y-C-H-I-A-T-R-I-S-A-T-I-O-N (16 letters) and appears about once in every 63 million words in written French, the 250,316th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Psychiatrisation is a French feminine noun meaning “psychiatrization” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tendance à appliquer les outils de la psychiatrie afin de mettre en avant certains traits de personnalités…”.
What does psychiatrisation mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininepsychiatrization
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Tendance à appliquer les outils de la psychiatrie afin de mettre en avant certains traits de personnalités d'un dirigeant politique notamment afin de défendre une position selon laquelle ce dirigeant ne serait pas en capacité de gouverner.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of psychiatrisation
- psychiatrisations plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce psychiatrisation?
- /psi.kja.tʁi.za.sjɔ̃/
- \psi.kja.tʁi.za.sjɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is psychiatrisation in French?
psychiatrisation appears about once in every 63 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).