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psychic

POS

Adjective, Noun

HYPHEN

psy=chic

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun psychic has 1 sense

psychic(n = noun.person) Array - a person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception; Array

is a kind of occultist

Derived form adjective psychic₂

Adjective psychic has 2 senses

psychic(s = adj.all) psychical - affecting or influenced by the human mind; "psychic energy"; "psychic trauma"

Derived form noun psyche₁

psychic(s = adj.all) psychical - outside the sphere of physical science; "psychic phenomena"

Derived form noun psychic₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

psychic, a. [L. psychicus, Gr. , fr. psychh` the soul, mind; cf. to blow: cf. F. psychique.].

Of or pertaining to the human soul, or to the living principle in man. [1913 Webster]
" This term was formerly used to express the same idea as psychological. Recent metaphysicians, however, have employed it to mark the difference between psychh` the living principle in man, and pney^ma the rational or spiritual part of his nature. In this use, the word describes the human soul in its relation to sense, appetite, and the outer visible world, as distinguished from spiritual or rational faculties, which have to do with the supersensible world. Heyse. " [1913 Webster]
Of or pertaining to the mind, or its functions and diseases; mental; -- contrasted with physical. [1913 Webster]

Psychical blindness, Psychical deafness (Med.), forms of nervous disease in which, while the senses of sight and hearing remain unimpaired, the mind fails to appreciate the significance of the sounds heard or the images seen. -- Psychical contagion, the transference of disease, especially of a functional nervous disease, by mere force of example. -- Psychical medicine, that department of medicine which treats of mental diseases.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

psychic, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 a (of a person) considered to have occult powers, such as telepathy, clairvoyance, etc. b (of a faculty, phenomenon, etc.) inexplicable by natural laws.
2 of the soul or mind.
3 Bridge (of a bid) made on the basis of a hand not usually considered strong enough to support it.
--n.
1 a person considered to have psychic powers; a medium.
2 Bridge a psychic bid.
3 (in pl.) the study of psychic phenomena.

Etymology

Gk psukhikos (as PSYCHE)

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THESAURUS

psychic

Cassandra, Druid, astrologer, augur, automatist, calamity howler, cerebral, clairvoyant, cognitive, crystal gazer, divinator, diviner, divineress, ecstatic, extramundane, extrasensory, forecaster, foreknower, foreseer, foreshower, foreteller, fortune-teller, fortuneteller, geomancer, haruspex, impressible, impressionable, intellectual, magical, medium, mental, metaphysical, necromancer, occult, palmist, philosophical, predictor, prefigurer, presager, preternatural, prognosticator, prophesier, prophet, prophet of doom, prophetess, psychical, psychogenic, psychographist, psychological, pythoness, religious prophets, responsive, seer, seeress, sensible, sensile, sensitive, sentient, sibyl, soothsayer, spirit rapper, spiritist, spiritual, spiritualist, spiritualistic, subjective, supermundane, supernatural, supersensible, supersensory, susceptible, susceptive, telekinetic, telepathic, telepathist, unearthly, vates, weather prophet

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