idiographic

English - Turkish

Definition of idiographic in English Turkish dictionary

(Bilimsel gerçekler) kanun olmayan, kendine münhasır olan ve genel bilimsel kanunlar meydana getirmeyen

(Bilimsel gerçek)hususî, kendine münhasır, tekrarlanmaz

English - English

Definition of idiographic in English English dictionary

of or pertaining to individuals

Dr Esterson's next book, The Leaves of Spring - a Study in the Dialectics of Madness, is an illuminating idiographic study, devoted for the major part to the painstaking, detailed study of a patient and her family, investigated and treated as the interacting elements of a unity. — The Herald, August 14, 1999.

Of or relating to the study or discovery of particular scientific facts and processes, as distinct from general laws

Relating to or concerned with discrete or unique facts or events: "History is an idiographic discipline, studying events that cannot be repeated."

Of or pertaining to an idiograph

relating to or involving the study of individuals

Hyphenation

id·i·o·gra·phic