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psychophylaxis

psychophylaxis noun: mental hygiene; the development of healthy emotions, attitudes and behavior.

Noun

psychophylaxis (uncountable)

  1. Mental hygiene; the development of healthy emotions, attitudes and behavior.

Origin of psychophylaxis

From psycho- + phylaxis.

Questions about psychophylaxis

What does psychophylaxis mean?
Psychophylaxis means mental hygiene; the development of healthy emotions, attitudes and behavior.
What part of speech is psychophylaxis?
Psychophylaxis is a noun.

Words near psychophylaxis in the dictionary

  1. psychophonetically
  2. psychophonetics
  3. psychophonic
  4. psychophony
  5. psychophor
  6. psychophylaxis
  7. psychophysic
  8. psychophysical
  9. psychophysical parallelism
  10. psychophysical time
  11. psychophysical times

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