psychological novel

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a novel that focuses on the complex mental and emotional lives of its characters and explores the various levels of mental activity.

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Origin of psychological novel

First recorded in 1850–55

Words nearby psychological novel

psycholinguistics, psychological, psychological block, psychologically, psychological moment, psychological novel, psychological operations, psychological primary, psychological warfare, psychologism, psychologist

How to use psychological novel in a sentence

Submission is less a novel of ideas than a political book, and of the most subversive kind.
Houellebecq’s Incendiary Novel Imagines France With a Muslim President|Pierre Assouline|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Houellebecq on Thursday announced that he is suspending promotion of the novel.
Houellebecq’s Incendiary Novel Imagines France With a Muslim President|Pierre Assouline|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
He was not originally so uninhibited, however, as can now be seen in his “lost” novel, Skylight.
The Lost Novel of Nobel-Winner José Saramago|Charles Shafaieh|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
His books include Render unto Rome and a novel about Louisiana politics, Last of the Red Hot Poppas.
The Louisiana Racists Who Courted Steve Scalise|Jason Berry|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST

None of these writers set out to write an “immigrant novel,” or to make political statements.
The 2014 Novel of the Year|Nathaniel Rich|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
To reproduce the impulse born of the thought—this is the aim of a psychological method.
Expressive Voice Culture|Jessie Eldridge Southwick
But the novel disappeared under the clothes with amazing celerity as the voice of her sister-in-law demanded admission.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
Once on my legs I found that nervousness left me, words came freely and I even enjoyed the novel experience.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
You will not read the book with the rapidity with which some young ladies are said to devour the latest novel.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
I tried to forget the grotesque exhibition I had stumbled upon, in the novel and interesting scene about me.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton