somatic

so·mat·ic

adj \sō-ˈma-tik, sə-\

Definition of SOMATIC

1

: of, relating to, or affecting the body especially as distinguished from the germplasm or the psyche

2

: of or relating to the wall of the body : parietal

— so·mat·i·cal·ly \-ti-k(ə-)lē\ adverb

Examples of SOMATIC

1. <a somatic disorder that was once thought to be “all in the patient's head”>

Origin of SOMATIC

Greek sōmatikos, from sōmat-, sōma

First Known Use: circa 1775

Related to SOMATIC

Synonyms: animal, bodily, carnal, corporal, corporeal, fleshly, material, physical

Antonyms: nonmaterial, nonphysical

Related Words: anatomic (or anatomical), physiological (or physiologic); sensual, sensuous; hand-to-hand

Near Antonyms: cerebral, inner, intellectual, mental, psychological (also psychologic); bodiless, immaterial, incorporeal, insubstantial, spiritual; ethereal, metaphysical, psychic (also psychical)

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Other Psychology Terms

fetish, hypochondria, intelligence, mania, narcissism, neurosis, pathological, psychosis, schadenfreude, subliminal

Rhymes with SOMATIC

agnatic, aquatic, asthmatic, Carnatic, chromatic, climatic, comatic, dalmatic, dogmatic, dramatic, ecstatic, emphatic, erratic, eustatic, fanatic, hepatic, judgmatic, komatik, lymphatic, magmatic, neumatic, phlegmatic, plasmatic, pneumatic, pragmatic, prismatic, protatic, quadratic, rheumatic, schematic, schismatic, sciatic, Socratic, spermatic, stigmatic, sylvatic, thematic, traumatic, villatic