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
In a way The Voyeur is a savage but pointless reaction against the psychological novel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Another depressing, well-written psychological novel by a morbid author of the introspective school.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bourget in his remarkable psychological novel, "A Love Crime," has admirably drawn one of these characters.
From The Foundations of Personality by Myerson, Abraham
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