psychologistic

adjective

psy·​chol·​o·​gis·​tic

(¦)sī¦kälə¦jistik sometimes sə̇¦k-

: tending toward psychologism

specifically : attempting to introduce psychological explanations of social phenomena

Word History

Etymology

International Scientific Vocabulary psychologism + -istic

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