psychoticismn.
/sʌɪˈkɒtᵻsɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /saɪˈkɑdəˌsɪz(ə)m/ The condition or state of being psychotic or of being predisposed to develop psychosis; a scale in personality tests purporting to measure this.
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1950 H. J. Eysenck in Jrnl. Personality 19 129 His [sc. Kretschmer's] theory can best be represented in terms of two orthogonal axes, one measuring schizothymia-cyclothymia, the other normality-psychotic abnormality or ‘psychoticism’.
1957 P. Lafitte Person in Psychol. iii. 34 Neuroticism and psychoticism are defined with scrupulous statistical care in terms of factorial scores..: but neither is directly related to ordinary behaviour.
1977 New Society 7 Apr. 33/3 This book aims to establish psychoticism..alongside neuroticism, extraversion and intelligence... The attribute it measures is a halfway stage to psychosis, as neuroticism is to neurosis.
1986 E. F. Einsiedel in C. Itzin Pornography (1993) xv. 249 Subjects [are] exposed to one of several types of stimulus over time... Prior to this exposure, measures are generally obtained on psychoticism, in part to eliminate participation by subjects who might be especially vulnerable to this type of exposure.
2003 Wilson Q. Spring 9/2 People who are gaga over celebrities tend to display depression, neuroticism, anxiety, obsessiveness, and, in the most advanced stages, psychoticism and dissociation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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