biologization

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English

Etymology

From biologize +‎ -ation.

Noun

biologization (plural biologizations)

  1. assimilation into a biological framework
    • 2015 August 3, Scott O. Lilienfeld et al., “Fifty psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid: a list of inaccurate, misleading, misused, ambiguous, and logically confused words and phrases”, in Frontiers in Psychology, volume 6, →DOI:
      In this era of the increasing biologization of psychology and psychiatry ( Miller, 2010 ; Satel and Lilienfeld, 2013 ), authors may be tempted to assume that biological variables, such as parameters of brain functioning, “underlie” psychological phenomena.

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