Librarian vs Alienist - What's the difference?
librarian | alienist |
The keeper, manager of a library
One who cares for the publications, files etc. in a library, whether staff or volunteer
A person who processes and organizes information
(obsolete) An expert in mental illness, especially with reference to legal ramifications.
* 1923 , Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Creeping Man’, Norton (2005), page 1644
* 1927 , , Arrow, 2008, page 72
(obsolete) A psychiatrist or psychologist.
As a verb librarian
is .As a noun alienist is
(obsolete) an expert in mental illness, especially with reference to legal ramifications.librarian
English
(wikipedia librarian)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* librarianshipSynonyms
* library-keeper (archaic)alienist
English
Noun
(en noun)- “Speaking as a medical man,” said I, “it appears to be a case for an alienist . The old gentleman's cerebral processes were disturbed by the love affair.”
- There was probably not an alienist in the land who, having listened so far, would not have sprung at George and held him down with one hand while with the other he signed the necessary certificate of lunacy. But Molly Waddington saw deeper into the matter.