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psychical

/ˈsʌɪkɪk(ə)l/

psychical adjective: performed by or pertaining to the psyche (the mind, spirit, or both): mental, psychic.

Adjective

psychical (not comparable)

  1. Performed by or pertaining to the psyche (the mind, spirit, or both): mental, psychic.
    • Who could say where the fleshly impulse ceased, or the psychical impulse began?1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter IV, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 85
    • Even more perhaps than other kinds of genius, religious leaders have been subject to abnormal psychical visitations. Invariably they have been creatures of exalted emotional sensibility.1902, William James, “Lecture I”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC
  2. Pertaining to the animal nature of man, as opposed to the spirit.
  3. Outside the realm of the physical; supernatural, psychic.

psychical meaning in Tamil

psychical in Tamil

உளம் அல்லது உயிர் சார்ந்த

Examples of psychical in a sentence

  • Why then should we worry about its detachment from our psychical selves?" "If they can indeed be detached," Summerlee grumbled.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
  • "Thus every form, every object, every external phenomenon," says Vignoli, "becomes vivified and animated by the intrinsic consciousness and personal psychical faculty of the animal itself.1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the...
  • It has been shown that PQQ could be involved in the treatment of neurological and psychical disorders.2010 October 10, Yanyan Kong et al., “Preparation of 99mTc-PQQ and preliminary biological evaluation for the NMDA receptor”, in Journal of...

Antonyms of psychical

Origin of psychical

From Ancient Greek ψυχικός (psukhikós) + -al. By surface analysis, psyche + -ical.

Words formed from psychical

Questions about psychical

What does psychical mean?
Psychical means performed by or pertaining to the psyche (the mind, spirit, or both): mental, psychic.
What is psychical in Tamil?
Psychical in Tamil is உளம் அல்லது உயிர் சார்ந்த. See Psychical meaning in Tamil.
How do you use psychical in a sentence?
Why then should we worry about its detachment from our psychical selves?" "If they can indeed be detached," Summerlee grumbled.
What part of speech is psychical?
Psychical is an adjective.
How do you pronounce psychical?
Psychical is pronounced /ˈsʌɪkɪk(ə)l/ (UK).

Words near psychical in the dictionary

  1. psychic surgeons
  2. psychic surgeries
  3. psychic surgery
  4. psychic vampire
  5. psychic vampires
  6. psychical
  7. psychically
  8. psychicism
  9. psychicist
  10. psychicists
  11. psychicity

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