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Behaviourist

Definitions: Behaviourist

Behaviourist

Adjective

1. Of or relating to behaviorism; "behavioristic psychology".

Noun

1. A psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Behaviourist

Synonyms: behavioristic (adj), behaviouristic (adj), behaviorist (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Behaviourist

DomainTitle

Books

  • Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviourist (reference)

  • The Behaviourist in the Classroom (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Behaviourist

"Behaviourist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.80% of the time. "Behaviourist" is used about 83 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)98.8%8236,594
Adjective (general or positive)1.2%1339,140
                    Total100.00%83N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Behaviourist

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "behaviourist": behaviourist-type.

Ending with "behaviourist": absurd-cum-behaviourist, neo-behaviourist, non-behaviourist, pre-behaviourist.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Behaviourist

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

behaviourist dog

2

behaviourist theory

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Behaviourist

Language Translations for "behaviourist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

behavioristinen suuntaus (behaviourist movement). (various references)

   

French

  

béhaviorisme (behaviourist movement), mouvement béhavioriste (behaviourist movement). (various references)

   

German

  

Verhaltensforscher (behavior scientist, behavioural scientist, behaviourists). (various references)

   

Italian

  

seguace del comportamentismo (behaviorist), del comportamentismo (behaviorist). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ehaviouristbay

   

Spanish

  

movimiento behaviorista (behaviourist movement). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

behaviorismen (behaviourist movement). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Behaviourist

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-h-i-i-o-r-s-t-u-v"

-1 letter: behaviorist.

-2 letters: behaviours, obituaries.

-3 letters: authorise, behaviors, behaviour, obtrusive, outbraves, thioureas.

-4 letters: abortive, behavior, bouviers, habitues, hairiest, hautbois, haviours, hoariest, obviates, outbrave, outhears, outraise, outraves, ovaritis, saboteur, sautoire, subovate, thesauri, thiourea, tovarish, travoise, viatores, vibrates, vibratos, virtuosa, virtuose, virtuosi, vitreous, votaries.

-5 letters: abusive, airiest, arbutes, authors, baiters, barites, bathers, bearish, beauish, berthas, beshout, bhistie, boarish.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Behaviourist


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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