psychodiagnostics

American  

[sahy-koh-dahy-uhg-nos-tiks] / ˌsaɪ koʊˌdaɪ əgˈnɒs tɪks /

noun

(used with a singular verb)

1. the study and evaluation of character or personality in terms of behavioral and anatomical traits, as gesture, posture and physiognomy.

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Etymology

Origin of psychodiagnostics

1930–35; see psychodiagnostic ( def. ), -ics

Example Sentences

Duke University, great with wealth, last week produced a contribution to the higher learning�first issue of Character & Personality, a quarterly devoted to psychodiagnostics.

From Time Magazine Archive

Moreover, just in the field of psychodiagnostics, the methods of the modern experimental psychological laboratory are most promising and successful.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo