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idiographic

idiographic

English

Adjective

idiographic (not comparable)

  1. (psychology) of or pertaining to individuals.
    • 1999 August 14, The Herald:
      Dr Esterson's next book, The Leaves of Spring - a Study in the Dialectics of Madness, is an illuminating idiographic study, devoted for the major part to the painstaking, detailed study of a patient and her family, investigated and treated as the interacting elements of a unity.
  2. Of or pertaining to idiography or to an idiograph.

Derived terms

  • idiographically