psychological novel
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of psychological novel
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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The psychological novel gained prominence as the 19th-century world became mapped and colonized, the mind offering a new realm for discovery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
In a sense, she’s a person who always has a psychological novel going on inside her head, and where would the psychological novel be without Dostoyevsky?
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 16, 2017
Miss Schmitt has chosen to tell it not as a historical or Biblical but a psychological novel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Another depressing, well-written psychological novel by a morbid author of the introspective school.
From Time Magazine Archive
His other important novels are Ion, dealing with peasant life, and Ciuleandra, a psychological novel.
From Area Handbook for Romania by Donald W. Bernier
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