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physiomental

physiomental adjective: pertaining to both the body and the mind.

Adjective

physiomental (comparative more physiomental, superlative most physiomental)

  1. Pertaining to both the body and the mind.
    • Thereafter, environment makes impressions on the physiomental organism, and in time comes knowledge and consciousness.1894, The Open Court - Volumes 8-9, page 4224
    • It is probably easier to reveal the genesis of the physiomental symptoms in which a substitution mechanism is the case, as in the tics, than when the issue is a conversion mechanism, as in the physical symptoms of a hysteric complex.1914, George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Medical Record - Volume 85, page 556
  2. Pertaining to a physical object or action that acts as a cognitive or emotional trigger.
    • Common physiomental devices include a golden key (that doesn't open anything—its only use is to meditate upon) or a piece of fabric, equipment part or some other item that is part of what you want to think about.2012, Barry Darryl Morris, Complex Simplicity: Uncommon Sense, →ISBN, page 61
    • The physiomental action through which ritualism seeks to operate is known as sa sk r (literally 'mental impression').2017, Alison Arnold, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: South Asia:, →ISBN
  3. Pertaining to the biological determinants of emotion or cognition.
    • There is a bond of union, then, between the living organisms of animals and plants; but how the physiorganic forces of attraction and repulsion merge into the physioinstinctual forces of sensation, and these again into the emotional forces of attraction and repulsion, we cannot possibly determine...1864, Hugh Doherty, Organic Philosophy; Or, Manʼs True Place in Nature
    • Aging with its physiomental deterioration and changes in nutritional status...1990, Robert W. Schrier, Geriatric Medicine, page 464

Examples of physiomental in a sentence

  • Also, the manifestation of the menopausic syndrome is subjectively and objectively noted, dependent upon the pre-existing physiomental relationship.1942, The Medical World:
  • Shaftesbury's moral sense has a purely physical basis: "Basically his approach implies a physiomental continuum since there is no sharp distinction made between physiological and psychological drives.1996, Thomas J. Pfister, Sensibility: the social construction of eighteenth-century reality:
  • Speed-up and physiomental, economic, or social decline -- alone or together -- can also construct the feeling called nostalgia quite early in the life course.2004, Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Aged by Culture, →ISBN, page 31:
  • The occasional criminal who constitutes the majority of lawbreakers and is the product of family and social milieu more than of abnormal personal physiomental conditions.2004, Leonard Glick, Criminology, →ISBN, page 72:

Forms of physiomental

comparativemore physiomental
superlativemost physiomental

Origin of physiomental

From physio- + mental.

Questions about physiomental

What does physiomental mean?
Physiomental means pertaining to both the body and the mind.
How do you use physiomental in a sentence?
Also, the manifestation of the menopausic syndrome is subjectively and objectively noted, dependent upon the pre-existing physiomental relationship.
What part of speech is physiomental?
Physiomental is an adjective.

Words near physiomental in the dictionary

  1. physiomechanical
  2. physiomedical
  3. physiomedicalism
  4. physiomedicalist
  5. physiomedicalists
  6. physiomental
  7. physiomes
  8. physiometabolic
  9. physiometric
  10. physiometry
  11. physiomimetic

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