syntaxic
/sɪnˈtaksɪk/adjective
1 Crystallography = syntaxial.
2 Psychology. Designating a mode of experience in which objectivity and the use of consensually validated symbols take the place of subjectivity.
- Chiefly associated with the American psychiatrist H. S. Sullivan (1892–1949)..
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in American Mineralogist. From syn- + taxis + -ic.