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psychiatry

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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Pronunciation

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  • UK: /saɪˈkaɪ.əˌtɹi/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

The branch of medicine that focuses on mental and behavioral health by subjectively diagnosing, treating, or preventing mental disorders (mental illnesses) and behavioural conditions.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

Topics: medicine, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: psychopathology, psychological medicine

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: medicine, medical specialty

Narrower terms: alienism, psychotherapy, psychotherapeutics, mental hygiene

History

Etymology

Etymology tree French psych- French -iatre French psychiatre Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Old French -ie Middle French -ie French -ie French psychiatriebor. English psychiatry Borrowed from French psychiatrie. First attested in 1846.

Across languages

Translations

79 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: psikiatri — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Amharic: የአእምሮ ሕክምና (yäʾäʾməro ḥəkməna) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Arabic: الطِّبّ النَّفْسِيّ (aṭ-ṭibb an-nafsiyy) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Armenian: հոգեբուժություն (hogebužutʻyun) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Azerbaijani: psixiatriya — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Bashkir: психиатрия (psixiatriya) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Belarusian: псіхіятры́я (psixijatrýja) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Belarusian: псыхія́трыя (psyxijátryja) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Bulgarian: психиа́трия (psihiátrija) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Burmese: စိတ်ရောဂါပညာ (citrau:gapa.nya) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Catalan: psiquiatria — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Chinese Cantonese: 精神病學 /精神病学 (zing1 san4 beng6 hok6) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Chinese Cantonese: 精神醫學 /精神医学 (zing1 san4 ji1 hok6) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Chinese: 精神醫學 /精神医学 (cheng-sîn-i-ha̍k) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Chinese Mandarin: 精神病學 /精神病学 (jīngshénbìngxué) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Chinese Mandarin: 精神醫學 /精神医学 (jīngshén yīxué) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • West Circassian: психиатрие (psixiatrije) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Czech: psychiatrie — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Danish: psykiatri — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Dutch: psychiatrie — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Esperanto: psikiatrio — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Estonian: psühhiaatria — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Finnish: psykiatria — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • French: psychiatrie — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Galician: psiquiatría — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Georgian: ფსიქიატრია (psikiaṭria) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • German: Psychiatrie — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • German: Seelenheilkunde — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Greek: ψυχιατρική (psychiatrikí) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Hebrew: פְּסִיכִיאַטְרְיָה (psikhi'atr'yá) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Hindi: मनश्चिकित्सा (manaścikitsā) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Hungarian: pszichiátria — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Ido: psikiatrio — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Irish: síciatracht — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Italian: psichiatria — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Japanese: 精神医学 (seishin igaku) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Kannada: ಮನೋವೈದ್ಯಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ (manōvaidyaśāstra) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Kazakh: психиатрия (psixiatriä) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Korean: 정신의학 (jeongsinuihak) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Central Kurdish: دەروونپزیشکی (derûnipzîşkî) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Northern Kurdish: psîkiyatrî — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Kyrgyz: психиатрия (psihiatriya) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Latvian: psihiatrija — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Lithuanian: psichiatrija — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Macedonian: психијатрија (psihijatrija) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Malay: psikiatri — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Māori: mātai mate hinengaro — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Mazanderani: روان پزشکی — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Mongolian: психиатри (psixiatri) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Nepali: मनोरोग विज्ञान (manorog vigyāna) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Norwegian Bokmål: psykiatri — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: psykiatri — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Persian: روانپزشکی (ravân-pezeški) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Polish: psychiatria — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Portuguese: psiquiatria — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Punjabi: ਸਾਈਕੈਟਰੀ (sāīkaiṭrī) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Romanian: psihiatrie — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Russian: психиатри́я (psixiatríja) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Scottish Gaelic: leigheas-inntinn — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Serbo-Croatian: психија̀трија — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Serbo-Croatian: psihijàtrija — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Slovak: psychiatria — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Slovene: psihiatrija — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Spanish: psiquiatría — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Swahili: saikatria — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Swedish: psykiatri — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Tajik: равонпизишкӣ (ravonpiziški) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Tajik: психиатрия (psixiatriya) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Tatar: психиатрия (psixiyatriyä) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Telugu: మనోరోగచికిత్స (manōrōgacikitsa) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Thai: จิตเวชศาสตร์ (jìt-dtà-wêet-chá-sàat) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Turkish: psikiyatri — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Ukrainian: психіатрі́я (psyxiatríja) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Uzbek: psixiatriya — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Vietnamese: tâm thần học — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Vietnamese: khoa tâm thần — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Volapük: lanivestig — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Volapük: lienetisanav — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
  • Yiddish: פּסיכיאַטריע (psikhyatrye) — branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
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