psychonomyn.
/sʌɪˈkɒnəmi/, U.S. /saɪˈkɑnəmi/ The study of the mind or (formerly) soul; psychology. In later use chiefly: spec. experimental psychology (cf. psychonomic adj.).
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > mental action or process > psychology of mental action > [noun]
psychonomy1803
psychognosya1832
psychodynamics1874
1803 J. Stewart Opus Maximum (title page) Psyconomy: or, the science of the moral powers.
1844 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1841–3 2 76 Psychonomy, or the laws of mind, comprising the study of Languages, Metaphysics, Jurisprudence and Religion.
1865 R. Beamish (title) The psychonomy of the hand; or, the hand an index of mental development.
1967 J. F. T. Bugenthal Challenges of Humanistic Psychol. i. 8/1 Mechanomorphic psychology (psychonomy, in their newer term) views man as an object acted upon from the outside by various forces.
1991 Times (Nexis) 31 July This conclusion came as a disappointing surprise to the researcher who carried out the work, Eco de Geus of the psychonomy unit at the Free university of Amsterdam. He began with the assumption that a fit person would have greater psychological resistance to stress, and a smaller physiological response to it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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