somatist

[ soh-muh-tist ]

noun

, Psychiatry.

1. a psychiatrist who considers all mental illnesses to have physical origins.

Other Words From

• soma·tism noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of somatist¹

1670–80, in sense “materialist”; somat- + -ist

Example Sentences

Somatist, sō′ma-tist, n. one who admits the existence of corporeal beings only.—n.

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