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psychosocial

UK/ˌsaɪ̯.kəʊ̯ˈsəʊ̯.ʃəl//ˌsaɪ̯.koʊ̯ˈsoʊ̯.ʃəl/

psychosocial adjective: having both psychological and social aspects.

Adjective

psychosocial (not comparable)

  1. Having both psychological and social aspects.
    • It seems to me that most of those who adhere to an organicist position in psychiatry espouse a system of values of which they are unaware. They imply that they recognize as scientific only physics (and its branches), but instead of asserting this, they say that they object to psychosocial theories...1974, Thomas S. Szasz, chapter 6, in The Myth of Mental Illness, →ISBN, page 102
    • Erikson's stages of psychosocial development, as articulated in the second half of the 20th century by Erik Erikson in collaboration with Joan Erikson,^([1]) is a comprehensive psychoanalytic theory that identifies a series of eight stages that a healthy developing individual should pass through...2023 December 30, Wikipedia contributors, “Erikson's stages of psychosocial development”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation

psychosocial meaning in Kannada and Indonesian

psychosocial in Kannada

ಮನಸ್ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕ, ಮನಶ್ಶಾರೀರಿಕ

psychosocial in Indonesian

having both psychological and social aspects
psikososial

Origin of psychosocial

From psycho- + social.

Words formed from psychosocial

Words that rhyme with psychosocial

Questions about psychosocial

What does psychosocial mean?
Psychosocial means having both psychological and social aspects.
What is psychosocial in Kannada?
Psychosocial in Kannada is ಮನಸ್ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕ, ಮನಶ್ಶಾರೀರಿಕ. See Psychosocial meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is psychosocial?
Psychosocial is an adjective.
How do you pronounce psychosocial?
Psychosocial is pronounced /ˌsaɪ̯.kəʊ̯ˈsəʊ̯.ʃəl/ (UK).

Words near psychosocial in the dictionary

  1. psychosexuality
  2. psychosexually
  3. psychosine
  4. psychosines
  5. psychosis
  6. psychosocial
  7. psychosocially
  8. psychosociological
  9. psychosociologically
  10. psychosociologist
  11. psychosociologists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: psychosocial (page history and authors); psychosocial (Kannada 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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