Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To explain or analyze (behavior, for example) in psychological terms.
- intransitive verb To investigate, reason, or speculate in psychological terms.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make psychological speculations; investigate or reason psychologically.
- To hypnotize or mesmerize.
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- verb To
interpret or analyze inpsychological terms
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's true that poor behavior can cause people to start questioning religion and that this might eventually lead them to atheism, but otherwise this strikes me as more an attempt to "psychologize" atheism - to treat it as nothing more than a psychological reaction to human beings rather than a reasoned rejection of irrationality or unfounded ideology.
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"strike terror" into others, to "psychologize" others towards the accomplishment of our personal motives.
The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga A. P. Mukerji
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Drawing a straight line from the Peasant Wars to Bolshevism, this view of fanaticism is today invoked by the West in order to demonize and psychologize any non-liberal politics.
Archive 2009-08-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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Modern critics tend to “vague-ify” and psychologize—that is, they turn the externals inward.
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Or even worse, it might seem to psychologize modality.
Kant's Theory of Judgment Hanna, Robert 2009
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Drawing a straight line from the Peasant Wars to Bolshevism, this view of fanaticism is today invoked by the West in order to demonize and psychologize any non-liberal politics.
Fundamentalism and fanatacism Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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It is only so useful to psychologize why attacking Saddam Hussein so thoroughly captivated this administration before 9/11, immediately after 9/11 and every day since then.
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You decided it was more important to psychologize me than express your disgust.
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Modern critics tend to “vague-ify” and psychologize—that is, they turn the externals inward.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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And it is usually the case that those who attack/psychologize me are themselves anonymous!
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