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单词 psychohistory
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Definition of psychohistory in English:

psychohistory

nounPlural psychohistories ˌsʌɪkəʊˈhɪst(ə)riˌsīkōˈhistərē
mass noun
  • 1The interpretation of historical events with the aid of psychological theory.

    his greatest contributions were in the field of psychohistory
    count noun this psychohistory of postmodernity focuses on the changing image of California
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Like many disciplines, history stays alive through novelty spins, Romantic History, psychohistory, the school of the annales and oral history.
    • The lead in historical work on globalization is taken by specialists in international relations spiced by imaginative mavericks from fields like the history of science and even psychohistory.
    • I eagerly await Seidman's analysis of Asimov's psychohistory in terms of ‘pseudoscience ‘and ‘anti-science.’
    • In this far-distant future, Seldon's name is lost in the mists of history, and psychohistory is a occult practice, whose ‘Psycholars’ maintain their Galactic rule by keeping the tenets of their science secret.
    • As I understand it, the history of emotions hopes to stand psychohistory on its head.
    1. 1.1count noun A psychological history of an individual.
      the psychohistory of the author
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Nixon and Kennedy, both Presidents with dominant fathers had significant leadership flaws as their psychohistories explain.
      • He wrote several "psychohistories" explaining how people like Martin Luther and Mahatma Gandhi were able to think and act the way they did.

Derivatives

  • psychohistorian

  • noun
    • All along Ariadne is, even with her transformation into a psychohistorian and mathematical physicist, a particular interactive finite body, a particular finite system of ideas.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Even psychohistorians have discovered the Empire: a recent call for papers was made on the subject of ‘America as an Imperial Power?’
      • After reading Isaac Asimov's classic ‘Foundation ‘novels, he nurtured a secret desire to be one of Asimov's ‘psychohistorians ‘- futuristic social scientists who could predict the course of human history.’
  • psychohistoric

  • adjective
  • psychohistorical

  • adjective
    • In my estimation, Turner's psychohistorical reading has eclipsed the philosophical subtlety of Newman's project.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • My entree to the theme is Erik Erikson's 1969 psychobiographical and psychohistorical work, Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence.
      • Periodically, this Foundation would face a Seldon Event, a psychohistorical crisis, in which a threat to its existence which would constrain the nascent second empire to follow a single, pre-determined, path.
      • Fortunately there is, besides psychohistorical knowledge and mathematical physics, yet another knowledge - scientia intuitiva - which combines the other two in a single active act of understanding.
      • There was even psychohistorical analysis of a certain meeting in 1938, explaining how Hitler's superior mind reading skills led to devastating international conflict.
 
 

Definition of psychohistory in US English:

psychohistory

nounˌsīkōˈhistərē
  • 1The interpretation of historical events with the aid of psychological theory.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • As I understand it, the history of emotions hopes to stand psychohistory on its head.
    • I eagerly await Seidman's analysis of Asimov's psychohistory in terms of ‘pseudoscience ‘and ‘anti-science.’
    • In this far-distant future, Seldon's name is lost in the mists of history, and psychohistory is a occult practice, whose ‘Psycholars’ maintain their Galactic rule by keeping the tenets of their science secret.
    • The lead in historical work on globalization is taken by specialists in international relations spiced by imaginative mavericks from fields like the history of science and even psychohistory.
    • Like many disciplines, history stays alive through novelty spins, Romantic History, psychohistory, the school of the annales and oral history.
    1. 1.1 A work that interprets historical events with the aid of psychological theory.
      modern writers often substitute psychohistory for biography
    2. 1.2 A psychological history of an individual.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He wrote several "psychohistories" explaining how people like Martin Luther and Mahatma Gandhi were able to think and act the way they did.
      • Nixon and Kennedy, both Presidents with dominant fathers had significant leadership flaws as their psychohistories explain.
 
 
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