- prototaxic
- In interpersonal psychiatry, a term referring to the earliest form of experience characteristic of the infant that is undifferentiated, global, and unorganized. [proto- + G. taxis, order, arrangement]
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Medical dictionary. 2011.
prototaxic
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prototaxic — “+ adjective Etymology: prot + taxic (as in parataxic) : lacking in self awareness and in perception of temporal sequence : cognitively inchoate : preconceptual prototaxic symbols in the first year of life the prototaxic mode is operating… … Useful english dictionary
prototaxic — pro·to·taxic … English syllables
parataxic — Pertaining to parataxis. * * * para·tax·ic .par ə tak sik adj relating to or being thinking in which a cause and effect relationship is attributed to events occurring at about the same time but having no logical relationship compare PROTOTAXIC … Medical dictionary
parataxic — |parə|taksik adjective Etymology: New Latin parataxis + English ic : characterized by or relating to a mode of individual experience in which persons, events, and relationships are perceived as discrete phenomena, in which occurrences in the real … Useful english dictionary
syntaxic — sə̇n.ˈtaksik adjective Etymology: syn + taxic (as in parataxic) : characterized by or relating to a mode of experience or symbolic behavior that relates symbols and referents, speech and action, subject and object in a sequentially logical and… … Useful english dictionary
