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psychspeak

psychspeak noun: the jargon used by psychologists or psychiatrists.

Noun

psychspeak (uncountable)

  1. The jargon used by psychologists or psychiatrists.
    • The languages of all health care professions - medspeak, nursespeak, psychspeak, and so on - are extremely useful, but they are only intelligible to the initiated.1992, Rob Buckman, Yvonne Kason, How to break bad news: a guide for health care professionals, page 83

Origin of psychspeak

From psych- + -speak.

Questions about psychspeak

What does psychspeak mean?
Psychspeak means the jargon used by psychologists or psychiatrists.
What part of speech is psychspeak?
Psychspeak is a noun.

Words near psychspeak in the dictionary

  1. psychrotrophs
  2. psychroxerophytic
  3. psychs
  4. psychs out
  5. psychs up
  6. psychspeak
  7. psyculture
  8. PsyD
  9. psydracia
  10. psydracium
  11. psydub

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