psychosomatic

English

WOTD – 8 November 2009

Etymology

From psycho- +‎ somatic.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌsaɪkəʊsəˈmætɪk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌsaɪkoʊsəˈmædɪk/

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Adjective

psychosomatic (comparative more psychosomatic, superlative most psychosomatic)

1. (now rare) Pertaining to both the mind and the body.
2. (medicine, psychology) Pertaining to physical diseases, symptoms etc. which have mental causes.

Translations

of physical effects with mental causes

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心理作用引起的 (xīnlǐ zuòyòng yǐnqǐ de), 身心 (zh) (shēn-xīn)

• Czech: psychosomatický
• Danish: psykosomatisk
• Dutch: psychosomatisch (nl)
• Esperanto: psiĥosomata, psikosomata
• Estonian: psühhosomaatiline
• Finnish: psykosomaattinen (fi)
• French: psychosomatique (fr)
• German: psychosomatisch (de)
• Greek: ψυχοσωματικός (el) (psychosomatikós)
• Hungarian: pszichoszomatikus (hu)
• Icelandic: geðvefrænn
• Italian: psicosomatico
• Japanese: 心身 (ja) (しんしん, shinshin)
• Macedonian: психосоматски (psihosomatski)
• Norwegian: psykosomatisk
• Polish: psychosomatyczny (pl)
• Portuguese: psicossomático (pt)
• Russian: психосомати́ческий (ru) (psixosomatíčeskij)
• Serbo-Croatian: психосоматски
• Spanish: psicosomático (es)
• Swedish: psykosomatisk (sv)
• Turkish: psikosomatik (tr)
• Ukrainian: психосомати́чний (psyxosomatýčnyj)

See also

• somatoform

Anagrams

• somatopsychic