Definition of psychobabble
1
: a predominantly metaphorical language for expressing one's feelings
2a
: psychological jargon
b
: trite or simplistic language derived from psychotherapy
repeating the usual psychobabble about self-discovery— Mark Coleman
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The first known use of psychobabble was in 1975
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