noun
- a person who uses psychological jargon or terminology in a pretentious or meaningless way
Usage: informal; often derogatory
Examples
- The self-help guru was dismissed as just another psychobabbler.
- She couldn’t stand the psychobabbler who kept analyzing everyone’s behavior.
- The therapist warned against becoming a psychobabbler who throws around terms carelessly.
- He was known as the office psychobabbler, always diagnosing his coworkers.
- The book was written by a psychobabbler who used fancy terms to say nothing meaningful.
- Critics called the TV host a psychobabbler for his superficial psychological commentary.