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psychograph

American  
[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

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

In 90� in the Shade he drew a biting "psychograph" of the South.

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

As we have already seen in detail, the methods of the individual and the vocational psychograph are still in the stage of empirical procedure.

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

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