personalisticsn.
/pəːsn̩əˈlɪstɪks/, /pəːs(ə)nəˈlɪstɪks/, U.S. /ˌpərs(ə)nəˈlɪstɪks/ Psychology. Now rare.
A branch of science concerned with the study of individuals in relation to their personal experience.
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psychodynamics1874
characterology1895
ego-psychology1923
personology1926
personality1930
personalistics1935
1935 H. D. Spoerl tr. W. Stern in Char. & Personality 3 271 Psychology is only a partial science within a more comprehensive science of the human person which is only in its beginning (i.e., the science of the person, or personalistics).
1937 Char. & Personality 5 236 Personalistics is not a biological vitalism, because the human person is to be distinguished from the animal person.
1962 Harvard Educ. Rev. 32 373 Man seen as a being-in-process-of-becoming. This label covers recent trends known as holism, orthopsychology, personalistics, existential psychology.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1935- look out of
- look out of a place
- look over
- look over one's shoulder
- look parsnips
- look right through
- look right through a person
- look round
- look round about
- look row
- look seek trouble
- look seven ways for sunday
- look sharp
- look shockingly
- look sideways
- look six ways for sunday
- look slippery
- look smart
- look someone at the eyes
- look sour
- look squally
- look squiggle-eyed
- look squiggle-eyed at someone
- look squiggleeyed
- look squiggleeyed at someone