armchair psychologist
/ˈɑːm.t͡ʃɛə saɪkɒləd͡ʒɪst/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.11 in modern English
38
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
5
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who gives psychological advice or speculates about a person's mental health without any qualification to do so.
Informal
Example Sentences
- "Alcohol education has turned our son into another armchair psychologist. All my wife and I hear about is how we must strive for open communication. Can't anyone just give him the facts about what alcohol can do to you and leave psychology to the experts?"
- "This was in 1895. The armchair psychologist thereby acquired a stain of taboo early on, in the childhood of psychology, while laboratory research was the totem it was hoped that psychologists would dance around in the twentieth century."
- "Amid a two-hour conversation at Manny's, Axelrod veered from raconteur to philosopher to armchair psychologist to pundit."