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Freudism

Freudism is the alternative form of Freudianism.

Meaning of Freudianism

Noun

Freudianism (usually uncountable, plural Freudianisms)

  1. (usually) Freudian beliefs and practices, particularly the mechanism of psychological repression, the centrality of sexual desire to the development of the persona, and the efficacy of the "talking cure" or psychoanalytic technique.

Origin of Freudism

From Freud + -ism.

Questions about Freudism

What is Freudism the alternative form of?
Freudism is the alternative form of Freudianism.

Words near Freudism in the dictionary

  1. Freudianist
  2. Freudianists
  3. Freudianly
  4. Freudianness
  5. Freudians
  6. Freudism
  7. Freudist
  8. Freudists
  9. Freund's adjuvant
  10. frevo
  11. Frew

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Freudism (page history and authors); Freudianism (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.

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