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psychosomatic


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Definition of psychosomatic

adjective

  • 1(of a physical illness or other condition) caused or aggravated by a mental factor such as internal conflict or stress:her doctor was convinced that most of Edith’s problems were psychosomatic
  • 2relating to the interaction of mind and body: hypnosis involves powerful but little-understood psychosomatic interactions

Derivatives

psychosomatically

adverb

psychosomatic in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of psychosomatic in the US English dictionary