dynamogenic

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adjective

Characterized by dynamogeny; producing much nervous activity.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

adjectivedynamogenic (comparative more dynamogenic, superlative most dynamogenic)

comparative more dynamogenic · superlative most dynamogenic

  1. human sciencesCharacterized by dynamogeny; producing much nervous activity.
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    There could be no more perfect description of the divided will, when the higher wishes lack just that last acuteness, that touch of explosive intensity, of dynamogenic quality (to use the slang of the psychologists), that enables them to burst their shell, and make irruption efficaciously into life and quell the lower tendencies forever.

    1902, William James, “Lecture VIII: The Divided Self, and the Process of Its Unification”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 173

Origin

Translations

Italian dinamogeno
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dynamogenic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dynamogenic

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Chicago

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