psychologist

[sahy-kol-uh-jist]

noun

1. a specialist in psychology.

2. Philosophy.,  an adherent to or advocate of psychologism.

adjective

1. Also psychologistic. of or relating to psychologism.

Word History and Origins

Origin of psychologist¹

First recorded in 1720–30; psycholog(y) + -ist

Example Sentences

For psychologist Susan Young, the celebrity edition of the show adds an extra level of deception and intrigue due to the professional "impression management" of pre-existing personas.

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And Ibrahim, an unmarried psychologist, is achingly lonely: “Murders are all well and good, but who does he have?”

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One likely reason is what psychologists call “motivated reasoning.”

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The administration now says it plans to resume paying out a fraction of that funding, which would be used for school psychologists.

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The psychologist had spent nine hours interviewing Norris and told the hearing he was an "unreliable narrator of his own life".

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