psychogonicaladj.
/ˌsʌɪkəˈɡɒnᵻkl/, U.S. /ˌsaɪkəˈɡɑnək(ə)l/ Philosophy.
Of or relating to psychogony.
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the mind > mental capacity > spirituality > mind, soul, spirit, heart > origin of mind or soul > [adjective]
psychogenetical1874
psychogonical1877
1877 H. Sidgwick Methods of Ethics (ed. 2) 185 The statement..would hardly have been denied; if there had not been some confusion between the psychological question of the existence of such apparent intuitions [regarding the rightness and wrongness of actions], what we may call the ‘psychogonical’ question of their origin, and the ethical question of their validity.
1903 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 14 43 The issue has completely shifted from the psychogonical to the epistemological and metaphysical problem which lies on the boundaries of metaphysical speculation.
1992 A. A. Sismanian in J. Bregman & R. T. Wallis Neoplatonism & Gnosticism 352 The mythological nomenclature of other texts is transformed here in a kind of psychogonical substance or conceptual coagulation, producing psychological seriality.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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