Definition of Psychical

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

Exact synonyms: Psychic
Similar to: Mental
Derivative terms: Psyche, Psyche, Psyche

2. Adjective. Outside the sphere of physical science. "Psychic phenomena"
Exact synonyms: Psychic
Similar to: Paranormal
Derivative terms: Psychic

Definition of Psychical

1. Adjective. Performed by the mind; mental. ¹

2. Adjective. Affecting, or influenced by the mind; psychic. ¹

3. Adjective. Outside the realm of the physical. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Psychical

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Psychical

psychiatries
psychiatrist
psychiatrists
psychiatrization
psychiatrize
psychiatrized
psychiatrizes
psychiatrizing
psychiatry
psychic
psychic communication
psychic energy
psychic phenomena
psychic phenomenon
psychic trauma
psychical (current term)
psychical communication
psychically
psychics
psychid
psychids
psyching
psyching out
psychism
psychisms
psychist
psychists
psycho
psycho-
psychoacoustic

Literary usage of Psychical

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

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1885)
"THE English psychical Society was organized in London January 6, 1882, and definitely constituted Feb. 20th of that year. In view of the fact that more than ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1885)
"rI "HE English psychical Society was organized in London I January 6, 1882, and definitely constituted Feb. 2oth of that year. In view of the fact that more ..."

3. Outlines of Psychology by Wilhelm Max Wundt, Charles Hubbard Judd (1902)
"All the contents of psychical experience are of a composite character. It follows, therefore, that psychical elements, or the absolutely simple and ..."

4. Outlines of Psychology by Wilhelm Max Wundt, Charles Hubbard Judd (1902)
"The solution of the last and most general psychological problem, namely, the problem of discovering the laws of psychical phenomena, depends upon the ..."

5. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1894)
"Lastly, there are the executive processes of volition, the processes which, psychical to begin with, end in the issue of coordinate motor impulses, or, ..."

6. The Advanced Montessori Method by Maria Montessori (1917)
"tific criterion of their relation to the psychical needs of the child. Here, on the other hand, the means of development are experimentally determined with ..."

7. An Introduction to the Study of Society by Albion Woodbury Small, George Edgar Vincent (1894)
"It is the psychical potencies of society, knowledge, taste, and criteria of conduct, which persist and constitute the real life of the organism (§ 113). ..."

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