traumagenic
UK/tɹɔː.məˈd͡ʒɛ.nɪk//tɹɔ.məˈd͡ʒɛ.nɪk/
traumagenic adjective: that leads to trauma; trauma-forming.
Adjective
traumagenic (not comparable)
- 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
- 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
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