Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to dynamogeny.
- Producing force: as, the dynamogenic value of food.
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- adjective psychology Characterised by
dynamogeny ; producing much nervous activity.
Etymologies
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Examples
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"dynamogenic" when it increases the muscular contractions of men to whom it is applied; but appeals can be dynamogenic morally as well as muscularly.
Memories and Studies William James 1876
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"dynamogenic" order which, like any tonic, freshens our vital powers.
Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature William James 1876
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At the same time respiration slows down, as opposed to the speeding-up which is obtained from the ergotropic-dynamogenic zone.
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It is functional, in so far as it behaves like an ergotropic or dynamogenic system.
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On stimulation within a circumscribed area of the ergotropic (dynamogenic) zone, there regularly occurs namely a manifest change in mood.
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There could be no more perfect description of the divided will, when the higher wishes lack just that last acuteness, that touch of explosive intensity, of dynamogenic quality (to use the slang of the psychologists), that enables them to burst their shell, and make irruption efficaciously into life and quell the lower tendencies forever.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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It gets larger, for example, in cases of dynamogenic excitation.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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Anger in most of its forms is the most dynamogenic of all the emotions.
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There could be no more perfect description of the divided will, when the higher wishes lack just that last acuteness, that touch of explosive intensity, of dynamogenic quality (to use the slang of the psychologists), that enables them to burst their shell, and make irruption efficaciously into life and quell the lower tendencies forever.
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The resultant outcome of them is in any case what Kant calls a "sthenic" affection, an excitement of the cheerful, expansive, "dynamogenic" order which, like any tonic, freshens our vital powers.
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