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ideogenic

ideogenic adjective: arising from an idea, or from a person's own thoughts.

Adjective

ideogenic (not comparable)

  1. Arising from an idea, or from a person's own thoughts.
    • Unlike Freud's formulation of hysteria as ideogenic, the early Independents ascribed pathology to exogenous causes (that is, inadequate maternal function vs. the baby's hostile predisposition or fantasies).2018, Paul Williams, John Keane, Sira Dermen, Independent Psychoanalysis Today

Origin of ideogenic

From ideo- + -genic.

Questions about ideogenic

What does ideogenic mean?
Ideogenic means arising from an idea, or from a person's own thoughts.
What part of speech is ideogenic?
Ideogenic is an adjective.

Words near ideogenic in the dictionary

  1. ideocracy
  2. ideocrat
  3. ideocratic
  4. ideocrats
  5. ideogenetic
  6. ideogenic
  7. ideogenous
  8. ideogeny
  9. ideoglyph
  10. ideoglyphic
  11. ideoglyphs

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