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somatist

American

[soh-muh-tist] / ˈsoʊ mə tɪst /

noun

Psychiatry.

a psychiatrist who considers all mental illnesses to have physical origins.

Other Word Forms

somatism

noun

Etymology

Origin of somatist

1670–80, in sense “materialist”; somat- + -ist

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