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psychohydraulic

psychohydraulic adjective: describing a mechanistic model of behaviour in which the effects of drives are interpreted as those of pressure on a fluid.

Adjective

psychohydraulic (not comparable)

  1. Describing a mechanistic model of behaviour in which the effects of drives are interpreted as those of pressure on a fluid.

Origin of psychohydraulic

From psycho- + hydraulic.

Questions about psychohydraulic

What does psychohydraulic mean?
Psychohydraulic means describing a mechanistic model of behaviour in which the effects of drives are interpreted as those of pressure on a fluid.
What part of speech is psychohydraulic?
Psychohydraulic is an adjective.

Words near psychohydraulic in the dictionary

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

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