psychodiagnostics

[ sahy-koh-dahy-uhg-nos-tiks ]

noun

, (used with a singular verb)

1. the study and evaluation of character or personality in terms of behavioral and anatomical traits, as gesture, posture and physiognomy.

Word History and Origins

Origin of psychodiagnostics¹

1930–35; psychodiagnostic ( def ), -ics

Example Sentences

Rorschach died tragically at age 37 of peritonitis from a burst appendix a year after publishing “Psychodiagnostics.”

From Washington Times

The 10 cards, printed with symmetrical forms, remain the same as when Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach first published them in 1921 to accompany his book “Psychodiagnostics.”

From Washington Times

Duke University, great with wealth, last week produced a contribution to the higher learning�first issue of Character & Personality, a quarterly devoted to psychodiagnostics.

From Time Magazine Archive

Moreover, just in the field of psychodiagnostics, the methods of the modern experimental psychological laboratory are most promising and successful.

From Project Gutenberg