inkblot test

noun

: any of several psychological tests (such as a Rorschach test) based on the interpretation of irregular figures (such as blots of ink)

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Her initial expression becomes an inkblot test for the audience as the rest of the two-episode premiere plays out. Ben Travers, IndieWire, 11 Oct. 2024 Still, the apparent friction between Soho House’s you-can’t-sit-with-us brand and Portland’s reputation for crunchy eccentricity has made the club a kind of inkblot test for locals’ opinions on the city’s evolving identity. Callie Holtermann, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024 The premiere is something of an inkblot test. Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2021 This is not to re-litigate Gurianov’s play, which tends to resemble an inkblot test. Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2022 Brewer shows me —views from the side, back, and top—look like a cross between a nice, fat slice of sausage and a Rorschach inkblot test. David Ewing Duncan, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2019 The three may have combined to produce post-sunset skies on the western horizon that seemed to represent a sort of meteorological inkblot test. Martin Weil, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2022 The Rorschach inkblot test was in use, as were the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, a 567-item questionnaire, and the Thematic Apperception Test, developed by the Harvard psychologist Henry Murray. Benedict Carey, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022 The final element in Albert’s in-take as a study subject included a Rorschach inkblot test administered on May 11, 1944. BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2022

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First Known Use

1928, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of inkblot test was in 1928

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inkblot test

noun
: any of several psychological tests (as a Rorschach test) based on the interpretation of irregular figures (as blots of ink)

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