diagnosing

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon
verb determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis
verb subject to a medical analysis

And again, through my diagnosing Socrates as a decadent, I had given a wholly unequivocal proof of how little risk the trustworthiness of my psychological grasp would run of being weakened by some moralistic idiosyncrasy--to view morality itself as a symptom of decadence is an innovation, a novelty of the first rank in the history of knowledge. — The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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