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inmatehood

noun

Etymology

From inmate + -hood.

  1. derived from inn
  2. derived from in
  3. suffixed as inmate — “inn + mate”
  4. suffixed as inmatehood — “inmate + hood”

Definitions

  1. The state or condition of an inmate.

    • Prisons and mental hospitals show certain fundamental similarities in organizational structure, in goals, and in the nature of "inmatehood."
    • Conceptualizing "inmatehood" as involving a two-way "causal flow" between personality and social-system determinants reflects a transactional epistemology.
    • The picture that Schreber provides of his confinement is one of onesided confrontations, innuendos, and unimaginable torture, while to all outward appearances he was the model of docile inmatehood.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA