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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