analysis

Noun

• a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud
  • his physician recommended psychoanalysis
    

• a branch of mathematics involving calculus and the theory of limits; sequences and series and integration and differentiation

• the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., `the father of the bride' instead of `the bride's father'

• a form of literary criticism in which the structure of a piece of writing is analyzed

• the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations

• an investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  psychoanalysis , depth psychology , analytic thinking
• Antonyms: 
  synthesis , synthetic thinking