Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

psychohistorical

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: psy-chohis-tor-i-cal
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to psychohistory.

Example Sentences

"It is hard not to give in and accept the verdicts of Voltaire that "history is the lie commonly agreed upon" and of Henry Ford that "history is bunk." When faced with the Marxist fantasies of Srejovic or Childe, or with the psychohistorical hallucinations of Julian Jaynes, I realize that history is never a science and rarely an art, and the historian who pretends to the former loses the latter."

Etymology

From psycho- + historical.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: psycho

Derived Forms

psychohistorically

Frequently Paired Words

psychohistorian psychohistory

Questions

What does psychohistorical mean?: Of or pertaining to psychohistory.
Where does psychohistorical come from?: From psycho- + historical.

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