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psychologese

psychologese noun: the specialised language (or jargon) of psychology.

Noun

psychologese (uncountable)

  1. The specialised language (or jargon) of psychology

Origin of psychologese

From psychology + -ese.

Questions about psychologese

What does psychologese mean?
Psychologese means the specialised language (or jargon) of psychology.
What part of speech is psychologese?
Psychologese is a noun.

Words near psychologese in the dictionary

  1. psycholinguistically
  2. psycholinguistics
  3. psycholinguists
  4. psychologer
  5. psychologers
  6. psychologese
  7. psychologian
  8. psychologians
  9. psychologic
  10. psychological
  11. psychological autopsies

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