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Analysis   /ənˈæləsəs/  /ənˈælɪsɪs/   Listen
Analysis

noun
(pl. analyses)
1.
An investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole.
2.
The abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations.  Synonym: analytic thinking.
3.
A form of literary criticism in which the structure of a piece of writing is analyzed.
4.
The use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., 'the father of the bride' instead of 'the bride's father'.
5.
A branch of mathematics involving calculus and the theory of limits; sequences and series and integration and differentiation.
6.
A set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud.  Synonyms: depth psychology, psychoanalysis.



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"Analysis" Quotes from Famous Books



... but then a second thought will suggest that this is too simple a variation, and finally he will decide upon putting it even as before. I will therefore guess even;'—he guesses even, and wins. Now this mode of reasoning in the schoolboy, whom his fellows termed 'lucky,'—what, in its last analysis, ...
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 2 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe
... upon the stage, the human species was delicately vivisected in one act; human frailty exposed, human motives detected, human desire quenched in all the brilliancy of perverted epigram and the scalpel analysis of the astigmatic. Life, love, and folly were portrayed with the remorseless accuracy of an eye doubly sensitive through the stimulus of an intellectual strabismus. Barnard Haw at his greatest! And how he dissected attitudes; the attitude assumed ...
— Iole • Robert W. Chambers
... which is rapidly growing in popularity among the educated Hindus, and also among many very intelligent students of philosophical thought in the Western world. Its followers claim that the Vedanta Philosophy has reached the very highest point of philosophical thought, speculation and analysis possible to the human mind of today, and many Western students have claimed that it contains the highest conceptions found in any and all of the great World Philosophies. Be this as it may, it certainly contains much that is the most subtle, refined and keen in the field of philosophical ...
— Reincarnation and the Law of Karma - A Study of the Old-New World-Doctrine of Rebirth, and Spiritual Cause and Effect • William Walker Atkinson
... listen to the scrupulous analysis whose lessons, scattered through four thousand pages, teach us more concerning instinct and its innumerable variations than all the most learned treatises and ...
— Fabre, Poet of Science • Dr. G.V. (C.V.) Legros
... under these circumstances she might never have acquired that polish of mind, and strange dignity and reserve of manner which was one of her greatest attractions, did not strike him—as it has been plainly said, he was not given to analysis in his judgment ...
— The Man and the Moment • Elinor Glyn


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