to psychologize
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- verb
- /saɪˈkɒlədʒaɪz/
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psicologizar
- Desires can be harnessed (for action) and can be psychologized (as we commonly understand them; as articulated thought).
They would say, what I realize this is, you know, asking to psychologize, but like, why was why were mainstream people and and it's.
- They would say, what I realize this is, you know, asking to psychologize, but like, why was why were mainstream people and and it's.
Examples
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Therapists often psychologize their clients' behaviors to help them understand their emotions better.
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But that aside, I mean, I'm not here to psychologize my opponents.
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It's not meant to be armchair psychologized.
Blog text (34) -
Exploring the client's framework of moral meanings allows social workers to avoid categorizing and psychologizing clients' difficulties.
Academic text (1994) -
Seventh, the attempt to psychologize believers applies more readily to the hardened atheist.
Blog text (22) -
In her lecture, the professor did not hesitate to psychologize famous literary characters to reveal their motivations.
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He tried to psychologize the conflict by suggesting underlying psychological factors that influenced their actions.
Synonyms
To think about your own or other people's thoughts and feelings
Surface Forms
Morphology
psychologize = psychology (transparent) = psychology + ize
Productive verb formation from the noun 'psychology' using the suffix '-ize', meaning 'to apply psychological explanation', which is directly derivable.
Etymology
The word psychologize comes from psychology, made of psyche meaning 'mind' and -logy meaning 'study', with the verb ending -ize meaning 'make'. So to psychologize something is to explain it by thinking about people's minds and feelings.