Meanings
- not comparableThat leads to trauma; trauma-forming.
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Risk factors will not be realised in the context does not support or trigger them. Oppressive, traumagenic, and trauma-triggering contexts are likely to release processes that realise the negative resource cycles linked with mental health deterioration […] trauma responses to either reminders/triggers or current traumagenic contexts. […]
2022 March 10, Phil Willmot, Lawrence Jones, Trauma-Informed Forensic Practice, Routledge, →ISBN - not comparablemultiplicity slangOf a system (“set of alters of a person”): having become multiple due to psychological trauma.
We weren't going to do this, but it needs to be said. Get ready for a thread, it's time to wade into some syscourse on Main. ¶ Let's start by making one thing perfectly clear: we are a traumagenic system.
2019 February 8, @WanderingChord, TwitterAntonyms: endogenic
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveOf a system (“set of alters of a person”): having become multiple due to psychological trauma.
Origin
From trauma + -genic (“generating; generated by”).
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
traumagenic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/traumagenic
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