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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A psychological test in which a subject's interpretations of a series of standard inkblots are analyzed as an indication of personality traits, preoccupations, and conflicts.
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- noun psychology A method of
psychological evaluation that uses a person'sinterpretations ofinkblots or similar images to discover information concerning his or herpersonality ,emotional functioning, orunconscious mind.
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- noun a projective tests using bilaterally symmetrical inkblots; subjects state what they see in the inkblot
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Hermann Rorschach, (1884–1922), Swiss psychiatrist.]
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