| algolagnia | The practice of deriving pleasure, esp. sexual pleasure, from pain inflicted on oneself… | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| bioenergetics | Biol. With sing. or pl. concord. The study of the production, transformation, and use of… | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| biosocial | Of, relating to, or involving the interaction of biological and social factors. Cf. biosociology n. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| detemporalize | trans. To make timeless in character; to remove the impression of passage of time from; to detach from a particular time. | 1914 | Go To Quotation |
| electromorphic | Having an electrical form or nature. nonce-use. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| evolutionarily | In an evolutionary way; from an evolutionary point of view. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| hypothetico-deductive | Making use of or consisting in the testing of the consequences of hypotheses (i.e.… | 1912 | Go To Quotation |
| idée maîtresse | A leading idea. Cf. master-idea n. at master n. adj. 2b. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| instantiate | trans. To represent by an instance. | 1949 | Go To Quotation |
| instantiation | The action or fact of instantiating; representation by an instance. Also attrib. | 1949 | Go To Quotation |
| instrumentalism | The pragmatic theory of John Dewey (1859 – 1952) that thought exists as an instrument… | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| manipulability | The quality of being manipulable; tractability. | 1942 | Go To Quotation |
| mathematization | Mathematical treatment or interpretation; the fact of being treated or expressed mathematically; an instance of this. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| meaningfulness | The fact or quality of being meaningful. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| means–end | Of or relating both to the means of achieving a result and to the result itself, considered in relation to each other. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| mechanistically | In a mechanistic manner; on mechanistic principles. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| meta-analysis | Philos. Analysis of the grounds and assumptions on which a theory, explanation, or account is based; an instance of this. | 1953 | Go To Quotation |
| metadiscourse | Any discourse which is concerned with or alludes to other discourses. Also: a general… | 1960 | Go To Quotation |
| meta-ethics | The branch of knowledge that deals with the foundations of ethics, esp. with the nature of ethical statements. | 1938 | Go To Quotation |
| metalegal | Of, belonging to, or designating the basic principles underlying legal systems, or upon… | 1944 | Go To Quotation |
| metalevel | A level or degree (of understanding, existence, etc.) which is higher and often more… | 1953 | Go To Quotation |
| metalinguistically | According to metalinguistic criteria. | 1951 | Go To Quotation |
| metascientific | Dealing with questions which lie outside the scope of scientific inquiry; of or relating to metascience. | 1938 | Go To Quotation |
| methodologically | In a methodological manner or respect. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| metonymous | = metonymic adj. | 1917 | Go To Quotation |
| misperceive | trans. To perceive wrongly or incorrectly; to misapprehend. Also intr. | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| mobilism | A belief in or tendency towards change (cf. immobilism n.). In Philos.: the view that nothing is fixed. | 1912 | Go To Quotation |
| monochromat | A person with monochromatism (monochromatism n. 2). | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| monopolistically | In or as a monopoly; in a monopolistic way. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| monosexual | Composed of individuals all of the same sex; suited to or involving one sex only. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| Müller-Lyer | attrib. and in the genitive. Designating or relating to an optical illusion in which a line… | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| mythopoetics | With sing. concord. The creation of myths. Cf. mythopoeia n. | 1965 | Go To Quotation |
| neo-realism | A new form or a revival of realism (in various senses); spec. a naturalistic movement… | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| neo-Thomism | A new or modern advocacy, revival, or development of Thomist principles in philosophy and theology. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| neo-Thomist | A proponent or supporter of neo-Thomism. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| nonadditive | Not additive; not involving addition. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| nonchaotic | Not chaotic; (Math.) not exhibiting or characterized by chaos. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| nondeterministic | That does not involve determinism. | 1919 | Go To Quotation |
| non-evaluative | Not involving evaluation or judgement; concerned only with fact. | 1912 | Go To Quotation |
| non-figurative | Of (an item of) language: not figurative; literal. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| non-genetic | Not genetic. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| non-synonymous | Of two or more words, expressions, etc.: not having the same meaning. | 1951 | Go To Quotation |
| noumenalism | Belief in the existence of noumena; a philosophical system based on this belief. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| number theorist | A person who studies mathematical number theory. | 1912 | Go To Quotation |
| number theory | A doctrine or theory concerned with the cosmic significance of numbers and proportions, esp.… | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| object language | Philos. Esp. in the theories of Bertrand Russell: language made up of words each of which… | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| overbounding | Exceeding, overflowing; greatly abundant. | 1944 | Go To Quotation |
| paramnesic | Of the nature of paramnesia; of or relating to paramnesia. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| patronat | With the: an organization set up by industrial employers in France to represent… | 1912 | Go To Quotation |
| personalistic | Of or relating to an individual person considered as different and separate from… | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| perspectived | Placed or drawn in perspective; that involves or is characterized by perspectives. | 1930 | Go To Quotation |
| pragmatization | The action or process of giving practical effect to theory; the gradual transformation of… | 1948 | Go To Quotation |
| preadaptive | Causing or characterized by preadaptation. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| presentient | Occurring or existing before the emergence of sentience. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| presuppositional | Of or relating to (a) presupposition or presuppositions. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| pseudo-rationality | Pseudo-rational quality or nature; a system or argument characterized by this; = pseudo-rationalism n. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| psychochemical | Of, relating to, or involving the chemistry of psychological processes. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| psychologistically | In a psychologistic manner; (also) in the manner of a psychologist. | 1922 | Go To Quotation |
| psychospiritual | Of, involving, or relating to the interrelation of the mind and spirituality. | 1937 | Go To Quotation |
| reductionism | The practice of describing or explaining a complex (esp. mental, social, or… | 1925 | Go To Quotation |
| Skinnerian | Of or relating to the methods and theories of the neo-behaviourist school of psychology associated with B. F. Skinner. | 1949 | Go To Quotation |
| space-time | Relating to or situated in both space and time. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
