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psychotopologies

psychotopologies is the plural of psychotopology.

Meaning of psychotopology

Noun

psychotopology (countable and uncountable, plural psychotopologies)

  1. The psychological dimension of place; the impact of the physical environment on one's emotional and mental state; psychogeography.
    • As Kurt Lewin's efforts to develop a psychotopology of personality clearly revealed, the environmental vectors which impinge upon personality must interact with psychovectors before behavioral direction is modified.1983, Hunter B. Shirley, Mapping the Mind, page 112
  2. The pattern or structure of mental processes.
    • Tangential but very important to this paper is Maruyama's persuasive argument that there are prevailing structures of reasoning or "psychotopologies" that interpretively create both the objectivity and the relevance of all matter of inquiry.1981, The Tibet Journal - Volume 6, page 36

Questions about psychotopologies

What is psychotopologies the plural of?
Psychotopologies is the plural of psychotopology.

Words near psychotopologies in the dictionary

  1. psychotomimesis
  2. psychotomimetic
  3. psychotomimetically
  4. psychotomimetics
  5. psychotopological
  6. psychotopologies
  7. psychotopology
  8. psychotoxic
  9. psychotoxicity
  10. psychotrauma
  11. psychotraumas

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