psychobabble
Example Sentences
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Characters swing in tone between saccharine psychobabble and the ramblings of old men trying to figure out how to use their computers.
From Slate • Nov. 11, 2019
It may sound like esoteric psychobabble, or an overemphasis on something that should be inherent in players.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2019
Biological theories of and treatments for the brain, notably drugs like Thorazine, lithium, Valium and Prozac, displaced Freudian psychobabble and transformed psychiatry into a truly scientific discipline.
From Scientific American • Aug. 3, 2019
Watching ancient Greek rituals transposed so literally to a contemporary context – with contemporary psychobabble to match – can be jolting, to put it mildly.
From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2015
Ask a simple question, get a load of touchy-feely psychobabble in return.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
Vocabulary lists containing psychobabble
