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psych.

psych. is the abbreviation of psychology.

Meaning of psychology

Noun

psychology (countable and uncountable, plural psychologies)

  1. (uncountable) The study of the human mind.
    • Idleness is the beginning of all psychology .2023, Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols: Bilingual English & German Edition, Newcomb Livraria Press, →ISBN, page 9
  2. (uncountable) The study of human or animal behavior.
  3. (historical, uncountable) The study of the soul.
    • Alcinous in Didascalius chapter 23 uses the three physical locations of the human soul from Timaeus 69c–72c […] to lead into a dedicated discussion of psychology.2010, Harold Tarrant, “Platonism before Plotinus”, in Lloyd P. Gerson, editor, The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity, volume 1, →ISBN
  4. (countable) The mental, emotional, and behavioral characteristics pertaining to a specified person, group, or activity.
    • For generations, historians have conjectured everything from a warped psychology to a deformed body as accounting for Elizabeth's preferred spinsterhood...1970, Mary M. Luke, A Crown for Elizabeth, page 8

Questions about psych.

What is psych. the abbreviation of?
Psych. is the abbreviation of psychology.

Words near psych. in the dictionary

  1. psych wards
  2. psych-
  3. psych-fi
  4. Psych-O
  5. Psych-Os
  6. psych.
  7. psychache
  8. psychagogic
  9. psychagogue
  10. psychagogues
  11. psychagogy

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