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psychohydraulics

psychohydraulics noun: a mechanistic model of behaviour in which the effects of drives are interpreted as those of pressure on a fluid.

Noun

psychohydraulics (uncountable)

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

Origin of psychohydraulics

From psycho- + hydraulics.

Questions about psychohydraulics

What does psychohydraulics mean?
Psychohydraulics means 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 psychohydraulics?
Psychohydraulics is a noun.

Words near psychohydraulics in the dictionary

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

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