pseudonegative

English

Etymology

pseudo- +‎ negative

Adjective

pseudonegative (not comparable)

1. Resembling a negative state or condition.
   • 1924, George Rudolph Herrmann, Methods in Medicine:

     The pseudonegative reaction must be carefully differentiated from the positive reaction. It is anaphylactic in nature and due to autolyzed diphtheria bacillus protein.

   • 1980, Milton H. Erickson, Ernest Lawrence Rossi, The Collected Papers of Milton H. Erickson on Hypnosis, page 1:

     The first paper, "The hypnotic induction of hallucinatory color vision followed by pseudonegative afterimages," introduces an ingenious experimental paradigm whereby Erickson is able to explore the genuineness of hallucinatory color vision.

   • 2001, Ann Mortimer, Sean A. Spence, Managing Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia, page 41:

     Primary and pseudonegative symptoms. It seems likely that the core deficits in the negative syndrome are poverty of affect and poverty of ideation.