Definition of Idiographic

1. Adjective. Relating to or involving the study of individuals.

Category relationships: Psychological Science, Psychology
Antonyms: Nomothetic

Definition of Idiographic

1. a. Of or pertaining to an idiograph.

Definition of Idiographic

1. Adjective. (psychology) of or pertaining to individuals. ¹

2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to idiography or to an idiograph. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Idiographic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Idiographic

1. Of or pertaining to an idiograph. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Idiographic

idiocracies
idiocracy
idiocy
idiocyclophanous
idiodynamic
idiodynamic control
idioelectric
idioelectrics
idiogenesis
idiogenetic
idioglossia
idioglottic
idiogram
idiograph
idiographic (current term)
idiographic approach
idiographical
idiographs
idiography
idioheteroagglutinin
idioheterolysin
idiohypnotism
idioisoagglutinin
idioisolysin
idiojunctional rhythm
idiolalia
idiolatries
idiolatry
idiolect

Literary usage of Idiographic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pantology: Or, A Systematic Survey of Human Knowledge ; Proposing a by Roswell Park (1847)
"We proceed to give a brief synopsis of Mineralogy, under the heads of Crystallography, and idiographic, Systematic, and Descriptive Mineralogy. § 1. ..."

2. American Primary Teacher (1879)
"The alphabetic method was once a theory; we may well suppose there was a time when the advocates of the old idiographic mode of writing looked with ..."

3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1822)
"... were often forced to mention in their idiographic texts, principally during the various periods of the subjection of Egypt to kings of a foreign race. ..."

4. The Finality of the Christian Religion by George Burman Foster (1906)
"idiographic school; rather, they grant that the two moments of human knowledge, idiographic and nomothetic, may be referred to a common source. ..."

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