psychic
Meanings
Plural: psychics
Noun
- a person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception
- 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 influences.
- A person who supposedly contacts the dead; a medium.
- 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 Satellite
- affecting or influenced by the human mind
- "psychic energy"
- "psychic trauma"
- outside the sphere of physical science
- "psychic phenomena"
Adj
- Relating to or having the abilities of a psychic.
- Relating to the psyche or mind, or to mental activity in general.
Origin / Etymology
From Ancient Greek ψυχικός (psukhikós, “relative to the soul, spirit, mind”). Earlier referred to as "psychical"; or from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul, mind, psyche”). First appeared (as substantive) 1871 and first records 1895.
Synonyms
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