Definition of psychobabble
1 : a predominantly metaphorical language for expressing one's feelings
2a : psychological jargonb : trite or simplistic language derived from psychotherapy repeating the usual psychobabble about self-discovery — Mark Coleman
psychobabble
intransitive verbFrom the M-W Editors
Examples of psychobabble in a Sentence
a popular book filled with the usual psychobabble
Recent Examples of psychobabble from the Web
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Such speculation makes psychobiography sound like little more than psychobabble.
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As Elgafink, Bruiser’s sympathetic shrink, Kellie Spill gooses psychiatry and parodies psychobabble.
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So is the very way in which the teachers address one another, a psychobabble presumably born of workshops on treating students with sensitivity.
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First Known Use of psychobabble
1975
PSYCHOBABBLE Defined for English Language Learners
psychobabble
playDefinition of psychobabble for English Language Learners
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: language that is used by people who talk about mental and emotional problems and that is seen as silly or meaningless : psychological jargon
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