psychologizern.
/sʌɪˈkɒlədʒʌɪzə/, U.S. /saɪˈkɑləˌdʒaɪzər/ A person who psychologizes (something).
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > tendency to psychological explanation > [noun] > one who psychologizes
psychologizer1853
1853 A. J. Davis Great Harmonia (new ed.) III. xx. 272 He made a great secret, (like some of our modern biologists and psychologizers) of the magnetic influence, thus exciting a love of the marvelous in his followers.
1895 ‘M. Twain’ in N. Amer. Rev. 160 49 The Observer of Peoples has to be a Classifier, a Grouper, a Deducer, a Generalizer, a Psychologizer.
1931 W. R. B. Gibson tr. E. Husserl Ideas iii. iii. 273 The psychologizers everywhere will take offence at this; they are already disinclined to distinguish between judging as an empirical experience and judgment as ‘Idea’, as essence.
2003 M. Midgley Myths we live By v. 34 Reductive psychologisers like Hobbes did not see that there could be objective facts about subjective experience.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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