Word.ws English Dictionary

metapsychic

/ˌmɛtəˈsaɪkɪk/

metapsychic adjective: being or pertaining to something (for example, telepathy) that is outside the realm of orthodox psychology, or (more broadly) beyond scientifically-explainable psychic (mental) abilities (compare metaphysical, supernatural).

Adjective

metapsychic (not comparable)

  1. Being or pertaining to something (for example, telepathy) that is outside the realm of orthodox psychology, or (more broadly) beyond scientifically-explainable psychic (mental) abilities (compare metaphysical, supernatural).
    • REALITY AND TRUTH by Professor T. D. A. [...] Reality may be conceived of as having three aspects, the know- able or scientific, the imaginable or metaphysic, and the unimaginable or metapsychic.1911, Popular Science Monthly and World's Advance, page 371
    • Research in these matters is of special concern for a Christian, because metapsychic phenomena have often been lumped together with Christian miracles by those who have studied them.1959, New Problems in Medical Ethics

Origin of metapsychic

From meta- + psychic.

Words formed from metapsychic

Questions about metapsychic

What does metapsychic mean?
Metapsychic means being or pertaining to something (for example, telepathy) that is outside the realm of orthodox psychology, or (more broadly) beyond scientifically-explainable psychic (mental) abilities (compare metaphysical, supernatural).
What part of speech is metapsychic?
Metapsychic is an adjective.
How do you pronounce metapsychic?
Metapsychic is pronounced /ˌmɛtəˈsaɪkɪk/.

Words near metapsychic in the dictionary

  1. metaprotocell
  2. metaprotocells
  3. metaprotocol
  4. metaprotocols
  5. metapsammite
  6. metapsychic
  7. metapsychical
  8. metapsychically
  9. metapsychics
  10. metapsychism
  11. metapsychist

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: metapsychic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-metapsychic.wav.

Cite this entry: “metapsychic.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/metapsychic. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.