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

In the end, no such censorship was required; the American contestants were uniformly chaste and polite, their speech sanitized psychobabble cultivated to convey self-awareness, depth, and respect for women.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 10, 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

We both expected Ms. Antilly to spew a bunch of psychobabble at us.

From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher