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armchair psychologist

noun
/ˈɑːm.t͡ʃɛə saɪkɒləd͡ʒɪst/

Etymology

From armchair (“unqualified or uninformed yet giving advice”, adjective) + psychologist.

  1. derived from ψυχή — “soul”
  2. derived from psychologia
  3. borrowed from psychologie
  4. formed as psychologist — “psychology + -ist”
  5. compounded as armchair psychologist — “armchair + psychologist”

Definitions

  1. One who gives psychological advice or speculates about a person's mental health without…

    One who gives psychological advice or speculates about a person's mental health without any qualification to do so.

    • This was in 1895. The armchair psychologist thereby acquired a stain of taboo early on, in the childhood of psychology, while laboratory research was the totem it was hoped that psychologists would dance around in the twentieth century.
    • Amid a two-hour conversation at Manny's, Axelrod veered from raconteur to philosopher to armchair psychologist to pundit.

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