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psychal

psychal adjective: having to do with the psyche.

Adjective

psychal (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Having to do with the psyche.
    • It is needless to demonstrate that a poem is such only inasmuch as it intensely excites, by elevating the soul; and all intense excitements are, through a psychal necessity, brief.1846, E. A. Poe, The Philosophy of Composition

Origin of psychal

From psyche + -al.

Questions about psychal

What does psychal mean?
Psychal means having to do with the psyche.
What part of speech is psychal?
Psychal is an adjective.

Words near psychal in the dictionary

  1. psychache
  2. psychagogic
  3. psychagogue
  4. psychagogues
  5. psychagogy
  6. psychal
  7. psychalgia
  8. psychalgias
  9. psychalgic
  10. psychanalyses
  11. psychanalysis

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