English Explanatory Dictionary

psychic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.
  2. A person who supposedly contacts the dead; a medium.
  3. In gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man the second type; a person focused on intellectual reality (the other two being hylic and pneumatic).
adj
  1. Relating to or having the abilities of a psychic.
  2. Relating to the psyche or mind, or to mental activity in general.

Pronunciation

/ˈsaɪkɪk/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-psychic.wav

Word forms

psychic psychics more psychic most psychic

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.

Related words

psychical psychological

Derived words

allopsychic antipsychic archeopsychic auditopsychic autopsychic biopsychic ethnopsychic exteropsychic extrapsychic galvanopsychic geopsychic interpsychic intrapsychic metapsychic neopsychic neuropsychic nonpsychic panpsychic parapsychic polypsychic psychically psychic cost psychic death psychic driving psychic expenditure psychic income psychicism psychicist psychicity psychicly psychicness psychic numbing psychic photography psychic prayer psychic surgeon psychic surgery psychic vampire psyker somatopsychic telepsychic unpsychic visuopsychic
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