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psychometric

UK/ˌsaɪ.kəˈmɛt.ɹɪk/

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Australia/ˌsɑe.kəˈmet.ɹɪk/

psychometric adjective: of or pertaining to psychometrics.

Adjective

psychometric (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to psychometrics.
    • In 1997, Turkheimer, perhaps the preëminent behavior geneticist of his generation, published a short political meditation called “The Search for a Psychometric Left,” in which he called upon his fellow-liberals to accept that they had nothing to fear from genes. He proposed that “a psychometric...2021 September 6, Gideon Lewis-Kraus, quoting Eric Turkheimer, “Can Progressives Be Convinced That Genetics Matters?”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC...

Noun

psychometric (uncountable)

  1. An individual capable of psychometry.

psychometric meaning in Tamil

psychometric in Tamil

உளமான

Origin of psychometric

From psycho- + metric.

Words formed from psychometric

Questions about psychometric

What does psychometric mean?
Psychometric means of or pertaining to psychometrics.
What is psychometric in Tamil?
Psychometric in Tamil is உளமான. See Psychometric meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is psychometric?
Psychometric can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce psychometric?
Psychometric is pronounced /ˌsaɪ.kəˈmɛt.ɹɪk/ (UK).

Words near psychometric in the dictionary

  1. psychomental
  2. psychometabolic
  3. psychometabolism
  4. psychometer
  5. psychometers
  6. psychometric
  7. psychometrical
  8. psychometrically
  9. psychometrician
  10. psychometricians
  11. psychometrics

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Adapted from Wiktionary: psychometric (page history and authors); psychometric (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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