MEANING
Originating in psychological processes rather than being explained primarily by another physical cause.
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- psychogenic symptoms
- a psychogenic response
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The report attributed the symptom to a psychogenic process after reviewing the evidence.
She rejected the claim that psychogenic meant deliberately invented.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Relational adjective; comparative and superlative normally not used. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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