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Definition: Psychogenic |
PsychogenicAdjective1. Mental or emotional rather than physiological in origin; "a psychogenic disorder". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Produced or caused by psychic or mental factors rather than organic factors. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Psychogenic |
| English words defined with "psychogenic": glove anesthesia. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Some people with epilepsy have psychogenic seizures in addition to their epileptic seizures. (references) | |
Hysterical tremor (also called psychogenic tremor) occurs in both older and younger patients. (references) | ||
Cardiogenic syncope, psychogenic seizures, and other nonepileptic states can closely mimic epileptic attacks. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Psychogenic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Psychogenic" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 18 | 82,615 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "psychogenic": functional psychogenic hearing loss ♦ psychogenic fugue. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "psychogenic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 心 性. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | psykogen (psychogenetic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | psychogeen (psychogenetic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | psykogeeninen ja funktionaalinen kuulonvajaus (functional hearing loss, functional psychogenic hearing loss), toiminnallinen kuulovaurio (functional hearing loss, non-organic hearing loss, psychogenic hearing loss). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | psychogène (psychogenetic), psychogénétique/psyuchogène. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | psychogen (psychogenetic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λειτουργική βαρηκοϊα (functional hearing loss, non-organic hearing loss, psychogenic hearing loss). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | psicogeno (psychogenetic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 心 性反応 (psychogenic reaction), 心 反応 (psychogenic reaction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | し"い"せいは"のう (psychogenic reaction), し"い"は"のう (psychogenic reaction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ychogenicpsay psicogénico. (various references) психогенный. (various references) sordera psicógena (functional hearing loss, non-organic hearing loss, psychogenic hearing loss), sordera no orgánica (functional hearing loss, non-organic hearing loss, psychogenic hearing loss), sordera funcional (functional hearing loss, functional psychogenic hearing loss, non-organic hearing loss, psychogenic hearing loss). (various references) psykogen hörselnedsättning (functional hearing loss, functional psychogenic hearing loss, non-organic hearing loss, psychogenic hearing loss). (various references) психогенний. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "psychogenic": psychogenically. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "psychogenic" (pronounced sī'kōje"nik) |
| 6 | -ō j e" n i k | carcinogenic. |
| 5 | -j e" n i k | eugenic, hallucinogenic, orogenic, pathogenic, photogenic, telegenic, transgenic. |
| 4 | -e" n i k | calisthenic, schizophrenic, splenic. |
| 3 | -n i k | allophonic, arsenic, avionic, beatnik, botanic, bubonic, catatonic, chronic, clinic, conic, cynic, demonic, diatonic, Dominick, electronic, embryonic, ethnic, galvanic, ganglionic, germanic, gnomonic, harmonic, hedonic, hegemonic, histrionic, hydroponic, hypersonic, hypertonic, inorganic, ionic, ironic, isoelectronic, isotonic, kibbutznik, laconic, leptonic, manic, masonic, mechanic, messianic, microelectronic, mnemonic, monoclinic, monophonic, multiethnic, neotenic, nucleonic, oceanic, organic, ovonic, panic, pharaonic, philharmonic, phonic, planktonic, platonic, plutonic, pneumonic, polyphonic, polytechnic, pyrotechnic, refusenik, sardonic, satanic, scenic, sonic, Sputnik, supersonic, symphonic, synchronic, technic, tectonic, telephonic, Titanic, tonic, transoceanic, tunic, tympanic, ultrasonic, volcanic. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-g-h-i-n-o-p-s-y" | |
-3 letters: chopines, conchies, hyoscine, psyching, pyogenic, speccing, syncopic. | |
-4 letters: chigoes, choices, chopine, chopins, cinches, ciphony, cochins, cogency, cognise, coignes, conches, conchie, concise, copings, copying, coshing, cosying, echoing, epigons, espying, gnocchi, gynecic, hospice, hypoing, isogeny, peching, phocine, phoneys, phonics, phonies, pigeons, pigsney, pinches, pingoes, pishoge, psychic, scoping, shoeing, sphenic, syncope. | |
-5 letters: chicos, chigoe, chines, chinos. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-g-h-i-n-o-p-s-y" | |
+2 letters: psychogenetic. | |
+4 letters: psychogenically. | |
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