Meaning

The state of being a patient or of being ill..

Example Sentences

Because of their inability to resolve their personal crises, these assassins will project their individual patienthoods upon society and, in their attempt to universalize their personal pain, could focus on the destruction of a leading figure or monument.

Getting better involves not only the ability to use the injured limbs again, but regaining the freedom to emerge “from self-absorption, sickness, patienthood, and confinement, to the spaciousness of health, of full being, of thereal world.”

Thus, the notion of patienthood seems to be changing from these two prevailing notions to a cultural relativistic idea that believes it to represent cultural and linguistic variations stemming from local beliefs, meanings, and practices related to the definition of health, illness, and health care seeking.

Here, patienthood invoked an epistemic investigation into causes and results and motivated decisions about seeking or rejecting cure.

Word Forms

• patienthoods

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When Should You Use Patienthood?

Use patienthood when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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