psychohistory
UK/sʌɪkəʊˈhɪstəɹi/
psychohistory noun: the scientific study of psychology and motivation in history.
Noun
psychohistory (countable and uncountable, plural psychohistories)
- 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
- 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.
psychohistory meaning in Tamil
psychohistory in Tamil
- உளவியல் வரலாறு
Forms of psychohistory
| plural | psychohistories |
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Origin of psychohistory
From psycho- + history. * The science-fictional usage was created by Isaac Asimov in the mid-20th century.
Questions about psychohistory
- What does psychohistory mean?
- Psychohistory means the scientific study of psychology and motivation in history.
- What is psychohistory in Tamil?
- Psychohistory in Tamil is உளவியல் வரலாறு. See Psychohistory meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is psychohistory?
- Psychohistory is a noun.
- How do you pronounce psychohistory?
- Psychohistory is pronounced /sʌɪkəʊˈhɪstəɹi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of psychohistory?
- The plural of psychohistory is psychohistories.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: psychohistory (page history and authors); psychohistory (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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