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psychohistories

psychohistories is the plural of psychohistory.

Meaning of psychohistory

Noun

psychohistory (countable and uncountable, plural psychohistories)

  1. The scientific study of psychology and motivation in history.
    • Pick argues that the general rejection of psycho-history by practising historians has left the story of ‘historical’ psychoanalysis on the shelf.2012, Richard Overy, “The Mind of Evil”, in Literary Review, number 399
  2. A fictional mathematical statistical science of large population dynamics, where mathematical models can predict general futures, based on activities of quadrillions of individuals. The fictional science first occurs in Asimov's 1950s Foundation series, and has since been picked up by other authors for other works.

Questions about psychohistories

What is psychohistories the plural of?
Psychohistories is the plural of psychohistory.

Words near psychohistories in the dictionary

  1. psychoheresy
  2. psychohistorian
  3. psychohistorians
  4. psychohistorical
  5. psychohistorically
  6. psychohistories
  7. psychohistory
  8. psychohydraulic
  9. psychohydraulics
  10. psychoid
  11. psychoids

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