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Definition of Psychic

1. Adjective. Affecting or influenced by the human mind. "Psychic trauma"

2. Noun. A person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception.

3. Adjective. Outside the sphere of physical science. "Psychic phenomena"

Definition of Psychic

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

Definition of Psychic

1. Noun. 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. ¹

2. Noun. A person who supposedly contacts the dead. A medium. ¹

3. Noun. (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). ¹

4. Adjective. Relating to the abilities of a psychic. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Psychic

1. one sensitive to extrasensory phenomena [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Psychic

psychiatric psychiatric condition psychiatric conditions psychiatric hospital psychiatrical psychiatrically psychiatries psychiatrist psychiatrists psychiatrization

psychiatrize psychiatrized psychiatrizes psychiatrizing psychiatry psychic (current term) psychic communication psychic energy psychic phenomena psychic phenomenon

psychic trauma psychical psychical communication psychically psychics psychid psychids psyching psyching out psychism

Literary usage of Psychic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1895)
"Therefore we find the words psychic, spiritual, spirituality, spiritist, standing for ... Since psychic force, psychic phenomena, and a psychic realm have ..."

2. Multiple Personality: An Experimental Investigation Into the Nature of Human by Boris Sidis, Simon Philip Goodhart (1905)
"The union ' of sensory elements with other sensory presentative groups and compounds is not free in its character. The psychic elements in these elementary ..."

3. The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1921)
"psychic PHENOMENA IN GRECO-ROMAN TIMES. By JAMES H. HYSLOP. Especially such writers as take a disparaging view of religion have endeavored to trace it to ..."

4. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1910)
"This confusion, however, is not limited to psychic research. ... Hence I am not stating anything peculiar to psychic problems alone. ..."

5. The Individual Delinquent: A Text-book of Diagnosis and Prognosis for All by William Healy (1915)
"psychic constitutional inferiority may be recognized by chronic abnormal social and mental reactions to the ordinary conditions of life, on the part of one ..."

6. The Individual Delinquent: A Text-book of Diagnosis and Prognosis for All by William Healy (1915)
"psychic constitutional inferiority may be recognized by chronic abnormal social and mental reactions to the ordinary conditions of life, on the part of one ..."

7. The Individual Delinquent: A Text-book of Diagnosis and Prognosis for All by William Healy (1915)
"psychic constitutional inferiority may be recognized by chronic abnormal social and mental reactions to the ordinary conditions of life, on the part of one ..."

8. The New Psychology and Its Relation to Life by Arthur George Tansley (1920)
"One of the great distinguishing marks of every 1 The modern'theory of psychic energy has been largely, though not very systematically, developed by Dr. Jung ..."

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