Word.ws English Dictionary

evo-psych

evo-psych is the abbreviation of evolutionary psychology.

Meaning of evolutionary psychology

Noun

evolutionary psychology (uncountable)

  1. (evolutionary theory) A theoretical approach to psychology that attempts to explain mental and psychological traits—such as memory, perception, or language—as adaptations, that is, as the functional products of natural selection.
    • You’ll have to forgive this exceptionally long post here, but for many critics of (and in) the manosphere of evolutionary psychology the following post articulates things better than I could.2015 June 9, Rollo Tomassi, “In Defense of Evo-Psych”, in The Rational Male
    Synonyms:
    evo-psych

Forms of evo-psych

alternative formevopsych
alternative formevo psych

Questions about evo-psych

What is evo-psych the abbreviation of?
Evo-psych is the abbreviation of evolutionary psychology.

Words near evo-psych in the dictionary

  1. evng
  2. evo
  3. evo psych
  4. evo-creo
  5. evo-devo
  6. evo-psych
  7. evobioside
  8. evocable
  9. evocalcet
  10. evocate
  11. evocated

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: evo-psych (page history and authors); evolutionary psychology (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “evo-psych.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/evo-psych. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.