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psychoticism

noun

Etymology

From psychotic + -ism.

  1. derived from ψύχωσις
  2. formed as psychotic — “psychosis + -tic”
  3. formed as psychoticism — “psychotic + -ism”

Definitions

  1. A personality pattern typified by aggressiveness and interpersonal hostility.

    • Eysenck has suggested the three dimensions of neuroticism, psychoticism and introversion-extraversion.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for psychoticism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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