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psychologize

[ sahy-kol-uh-jahyz ]

verb (used without object)

psychologized, psychologizing.
  1. to make psychological investigations or speculations, especially those that are naive or uninformed.


psychologize

/ ²õ²¹ÉªËˆ°ìÉ’±ôəˌ»åÏô²¹Éª³ú /

verb

  1. to make interpretations of behaviour and mental processes
  2. to carry out investigation in the field of psychology
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ±è²õ²â·³¦³ó´Ç±ôo·²µ¾±³úe°ù noun
  • ´Çv±ð°ù·±è²õ²â·³¦³ó´Ç±ôo·²µ¾±³ú±ð verb overpsychologized overpsychologizing
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of psychologize1

First recorded in 1820–30; psycholog(y) + -ize
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Example Sentences

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He oozes capability, of the mental and physical sorts, and though he has a tragic backstory he doesn’t seem particularly marked by it, as much as other characters might want to psychologize him.

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As often as not, his portraits suppress our impulse to psychologize by showing their subjects dead-eyed or asleep.

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In any case, it’s dramatically counterproductive to humanize or psychologize him, though Bang does at least try to bring some shading to a thoroughly despicable character; he plays him as soft-spoken, letting his height and weight comprise an implicit threat against the the small, reed-thin Duff.

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He developed psychological behaviorism, which included elements such as emotion and personality, to “behaviorize psychology and to psychologize behaviorism,†as his view is often explained.

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Secondly, there's what I call the "trust gap," this tendency to dismiss or normalize and psychologize women's reports of their symptoms.

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