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PSYCHOGENESIS
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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
Sense 1
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
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...):
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)
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