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Diagnosing   /dˌaɪəgnˈoʊsɪŋ/   Listen
Diagnosing

noun
1.
Identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon.  Synonym: diagnosis.






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"Diagnosing" Quotes from Famous Books



... at me just in that way? When you get that knife and that look, I feel a little too much as if you were diagnosing me." ...
— Annie Kilburn - A Novel • W. D. Howells

... except by those who knew him best—contributed a good deal towards the temporary waning of his popularity at this time. Leonarda is (like A Gauntlet) a good example of the root difference between Bjornson's and Ibsen's treatment of problems in their dramas. Ibsen contented himself with diagnosing social maladies; Bjornson's more genial nature hints also at the remedy, or at least at a palliative. Ibsen is a stern judge; Bjornson is, beyond that, a prophet of better things. Whereas Ibsen is first and foremost a dramatist, Bjornson is rather by instinct ...
— Three Comedies • Bjornstjerne M. Bjornson

... the unforeseeable,—the navigation of uncharted waters; and this adaptation cannot be considered hi any correct and helpful, because scientific, spirit, unless the cause of change is located. Surface manifestations are, in and of themselves, merely deceptive. A physician, diagnosing the chances of a patient, must first correctly ascertain, or at least ascertain with approximate correctness, the seat of the trouble under which the ...
— 'Tis Sixty Years Since • Charles Francis Adams



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