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PSYCHOGENESIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A general term for the origin and development of almost any aspect of the mind
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("psychogenesis" is a kind of...):
development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The development in the life of an individual of some disorder that is caused by psychological rather than physiological factors
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("psychogenesis" is a kind of...):
development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)
