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traumagenic

UK/tɹɔː.məˈd͡ʒɛ.nɪk//tɹɔ.məˈd͡ʒɛ.nɪk/

traumagenic adjective: that leads to trauma; trauma-forming.

Adjective

traumagenic (not comparable)

  1. That leads to trauma; trauma-forming.
    • Risk factors will not be realised in the context does not support or trigger them. Oppressive, traumagenic, and trauma-triggering contexts are likely to release processes that realise the negative resource cycles linked with mental health deterioration […] trauma responses to either...2022 March 10, Phil Willmot, Lawrence Jones, Trauma-Informed Forensic Practice, Routledge, →ISBN
  2. (multiplicity slang) Of a system (“set of alters of a person”): having become multiple due to psychological trauma.
    • We weren't going to do this, but it needs to be said. Get ready for a thread, it's time to wade into some syscourse on Main. ¶ Let's start by making one thing perfectly clear: we are a traumagenic system.2019 February 8, @WanderingChord, Twitter
    Antonyms:
    endogenic

Antonyms of traumagenic

Origin of traumagenic

From trauma + -genic (“generating; generated by”).

Questions about traumagenic

What does traumagenic mean?
Traumagenic means that leads to trauma; trauma-forming.
What part of speech is traumagenic?
Traumagenic is an adjective.
How do you pronounce traumagenic?
Traumagenic is pronounced /tɹɔː.məˈd͡ʒɛ.nɪk/ (UK).

Words near traumagenic in the dictionary

  1. traumabonded
  2. traumabonding
  3. traumabondings
  4. traumabonds
  5. traumacore
  6. traumagenic
  7. traumaless
  8. traumas
  9. traumascape
  10. traumascapes
  11. traumascum

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