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psychograph

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[sahy-kuh-graf, -grahf] / ˈsaɪ kəˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf /

noun

  1. Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.

  2. a psychologically oriented biography.


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Etymology

Origin of psychograph

First recorded in 1880–85; psycho- + -graph


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But if Author Cason was right about his countrymen's taste in reading, most of them would never even see his "psychograph."

From Time Magazine Archive

His psychograph is to be found mainly in the emotional autobiography he has transformed into comedy routines and then movie art.

From Time Magazine Archive

H. C. Lavery of Minneapolis contributed a "psychograph," a hemispherical metal framework which is fitted over the head.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is not a conventional biography, but something that might be called a "psychograph."

From Time Magazine Archive

Directed toward these more familiar and more easily accessible occupations, the individual psychograph constitutes one of the most interesting forms of vocational psychology.

From Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods by Harry L. Hollingworth

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