Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - psychobabble
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Psychobabble
psychobabble
noun Date: 1975 1. a predominantly metaphorical language for expressing one's feelings 2. a. psychological jargon b. trite or simplistic language derived from psychotherapy repeating the usual ~ about self-discovery — Mark Coleman • ~ intransitive verb • ~r noun
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3.
If you refer to language about people’s feelings or behaviour as psychobabble, you mean that it is very complicated and perhaps meaningless. Beneath the sentimental psychobabble, there’s a likeable movie trying to get out. N-UNCOUNT c darkgreen]disapproval ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ n informal the language that sounds scientific but is often annoying, that some people use when talking about their emotional problems ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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