idiographic

English

Adjective

idiographic (not comparable)

1. (psychology) of or pertaining to individuals
   • 1999 August 14, The Herald:

     Dr Esterson's next book, The Leaves of Spring - a Study in the Dialectics of Madness, is an illuminating idiographic study, devoted for the major part to the painstaking, detailed study of a patient and her family, investigated and treated as the interacting elements of a unity.

2. Of or pertaining to idiography or to an idiograph

Derived terms

• idiographically

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: idiografinen (fi)
• Italian: idiografico (it)

See also

• ideographic
• nomothetic