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somatize
somatize
English
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somatize (third-person singular simple present somatizes, present participle somatizing, simple past and past participle somatized)
- To express a psychological process through physical symptoms such as pain or anxiety; to have a psychosomatic reaction to (e.g. a situation).
- 1988, Edmund White, The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, 1994, Chapter Six,
- “ […] I don’t feel anything, naturally, since I’ve somatized the anxiety.”
- 1988, Edmund White, The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, 1994, Chapter Six,