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PSYCHOGENESIS

Dictionary entry overview: What does psychogenesis mean?

• PSYCHOGENESIS (noun)
The noun PSYCHOGENESIS has 2 senses:

1. the development in the life of an individual of some disorder that is caused by psychological rather than physiological factors
2. a general term for the origin and development of almost any aspect of the mind

Familiarity information: PSYCHOGENESIS used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PSYCHOGENESIS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The development in the life of an individual of some disorder that is caused by psychological rather than physiological factors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("psychogenesis" is a kind of...):

development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)

Sense 2

psychogenesis ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

A general term for the origin and development of almost any aspect of the mind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("psychogenesis" is a kind of...):

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