Definitions for "Nomothetic"
Legislative; enacting laws; as, a nomothetical power.
Relating to the universal and to the formulation of general laws that explain a range of phenomena. Contrast with idiographic.
constructing generalized models and laws (like universalism) Neo-Kantianism
Literally 'named category'. The nomothetic approach to personality agrees that personality can be categorised on the basis of those traits that we share. Hence nomothetic personality theorists such as Hans Eysenck talk about extravert, introvert, stable, and unstable (neurotic) personality types.