psychologize
verb
psy·chol·o·gize
sī-ˈkä-lə-ˌjīz 
psychologized; psychologizing
: to speculate in psychological terms or on psychological motivations
: to explain or interpret in psychological terms
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Many of them disproportionately affect women, and are subject to medicine’s long-standing tendency to minimize or psychologize women’s pain, Pollack told me: An average woman with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome typically spends 16 years getting a diagnosis, while a man needs only four.
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Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2022
As often as not, his portraits suppress our impulse to psychologize by showing their subjects dead-eyed or asleep.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2022
As often as not, his portraits suppress our impulse to psychologize by showing their subjects dead-eyed or asleep.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
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First Known Use
1810, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense
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psychologize
verb
psy·chol·o·gize
variants
also British psychologise
psychologized also British psychologised; psychologizing also British psychologising
: to explain or interpret in psychological terms
: to speculate in psychological terms or upon psychological motivations
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