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somatist

American  
[soh-muh-tist] / ˈsoʊ mə tɪst /

noun

Psychiatry.

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

Other Word Forms

  • somatism noun

Etymology

Origin of somatist

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

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

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