nomothetic

English

Alternative forms

• nomothetical

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek νομοθετικός (nomothetikós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌnɒməˈθɛtɪk/
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Adjective

nomothetic (not comparable)

1. Relating to the underlying laws of a subject.

   Antonym: idiographic

   • 2024 May 6, Kevin S. Kuehn, Marilyn L. Piccirillo, Adam M. Kuczynski, Kevin M. King, Colin A. Depp, Katherine T. Foster, “Person-specific dynamics between negative emotions and suicidal thoughts”, in Comprehensive Psychiatry, volume 133, →DOI:

     A focus on averaged risk effects, estimated across people, may occlude idiographic within-person processes which could aid in the precise detection of individual-level correlates of suicide. The present study focuses on new statistical models applied to intensive longitudinal data to quantify heterogeneity in within-person processes.
     Nomothetic approaches, such as multi-level models, are the most conventional method for identifying group-level suicide risk factors. These methods assume that effects apply equally across all individuals.

Related terms

• nomothetics

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: nomoteettinen (fi)
• German: nomothetisch
• Russian: номотети́ческий (ru) m (nomotetíčeskij)

Anagrams

• monothetic