PSYCHIC

psychic, psychical

(adjective) outside the sphere of physical science; “psychic phenomena”

psychic, psychical

(adjective) affecting or influenced by the human mind; “psychic energy”; “psychic trauma”

psychic

(noun) a person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

psychic (plural psychics)

A person who possesses, or appears to possess, extra-sensory abilities such as precognition, clairvoyance and telepathy, or who appears to be susceptible to paranormal or supernatural influence.

A person who supposedly contacts the dead; a medium.

(gnosticism) In gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man the second type; a person focused on intellectual reality (the other two being hylic and pneumatic).

Adjective

psychic (comparative more psychic, superlative most psychic)

Relating to or having the abilities of a psychic.

Relating to the psyche or mind, or to mental activity in general.

Source: Wiktionary

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Psy"chic, Psy"chic*al, a. Etym: [L. psychicus, Gr. psychique.]

1. Of or pertaining to the human soul, or to the living principle in man.

Note: 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.

2. Of or pertaining to the mind, or its functions and diseases; mental; -- contrasted with physical. 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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