单词 | psychologese |
释义 | psychologesen. Language or writing in which technical terms from psychology or psychoanalysis are used, esp. for effect; psychobabble. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > tendency to psychological explanation > [noun] > psychological jargon psychologese1951 psychobabble1975 1951 R. Hoggart Auden iv. 118 On occasions..he wrote ‘psychologese’ in poor verse. 1974 Publishers Weekly 4 Nov. 70/1 The mixture of psychologese and unctuous ‘poetry’ goes far toward placing this among the sillier books of its sort. 1991 Amer. Bk. Rev. Apr. 11/3 Some of the psychologese can irritate, a kind of facile, armchair Freud. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1951 |
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