PSYCHOLOGICAL FEATURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does psychological feature mean? 

• PSYCHOLOGICAL FEATURE (noun)
  The noun PSYCHOLOGICAL FEATURE has 1 sense:

1. a feature of the mental life of a living organism

  Familiarity information: PSYCHOLOGICAL FEATURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PSYCHOLOGICAL FEATURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A feature of the mental life of a living organism

Classified under:

Nouns with no superordinates

Hypernyms ("psychological feature" is a kind of...):

abstract entity; abstraction (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "psychological feature"):

cognition; knowledge; noesis (the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning)

motivation; motive; need (the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior)

event (something that happens at a given place and time)

 Context examples 

The psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior.

(Motivation, NCI Thesaurus)

Anything that is necessary but lacking; the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior.

(Need, NCI Thesaurus)