biologization en · NOUN
Etymology
From biologize + -ation.
Meanings
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assimilation into a biological framework
In this era of the increasing biologization of psychology and psychiatry ( Miller, 2010 ; Satel and Lilienfeld, 2013 ), authors may be tempted to assume that biological variables, such as parameters of brain functioning, “underlie” psychological phenomena.
2015 August 3, Scott O. Lilienfeld et al., “Fifty psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid: a list of inaccurate, misleading, misused, ambiguous, and logically confused words and phrases”, in Frontiers in Psychology, volume 6, →DOI:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| biologizations | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (2)
cmn 生物化 (Translations) · pl biologizacja (Translations)