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psychoid

/ˈsaɪkɔɪd/

psychoid noun: an innate physical reaction to a psychological stimulus.

Noun

psychoid (plural psychoids)

  1. An innate physical reaction to a psychological stimulus.
    • The close interaction between the psyche and the psychoid, and the fact that many actions are half psychic and half psychoid or psychic at one time and psychoid at another, lead him to the conclusion that the psyche is a specialization of the psychoid, just as the nervous system, the bearer of the...1931, Mental hygiene - Volume 15, page 173
    • It will be convenient, however, to adopt the convention that psychoids can be spoken of as being at a place in physical space, even though they cannot occupy a region in the ordinary sense.1966, Paul Feyerabend, Grover Maxwell, Mind, Matter, and Method, →ISBN

Adjective

psychoid (comparative more psychoid, superlative most psychoid)

  1. Pertaining to or characteristic of psychoids; Involving the causal interaction between the psychological or instinctive and the physical.
    • It is psychoid, and it extends into regions beyond human experience and knowing.1998, Murray Stein, Jung's Map of the Soul: An Introduction, →ISBN
    • While we may not blanch from claiming that every cell, every tissue and every organ is psychoid in that sense, it is probably the case that few of our contemporaries are willing to grant a psychoid nature to molecules, atoms and subatomic particles.2010, John Ryan Haule, Jung in the 21st Century Volume Two: Synchronicity and Science, →ISBN

Examples of psychoid in a sentence

  • Accordingly, Driesch considered that the psychoid served to regulate action, and it did so by employing the faculties of the brain as a piano player uses a piano.2018, Ann Addison, Jung’s Psychoid Concept Contextualised, →ISBN:
  • Because it is transcendent, it is psychoid, and the Self, which is the ultimate transcendent reality, must also be psychoid.2017, Jane Weldon, Platonic Jung And the Nature of Self, →ISBN:

Forms of psychoid

Noun
pluralpsychoids
Adjective
comparativemore psychoid
superlativemost psychoid

Origin of psychoid

Borrowing from German Psychoid

Questions about psychoid

What does psychoid mean?
Psychoid means an innate physical reaction to a psychological stimulus.
How do you use psychoid in a sentence?
Accordingly, Driesch considered that the psychoid served to regulate action, and it did so by employing the faculties of the brain as a piano player uses a piano.
What part of speech is psychoid?
Psychoid can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce psychoid?
Psychoid is pronounced /ˈsaɪkɔɪd/.
What is the plural of psychoid?
The plural of psychoid is psychoids.

Words near psychoid in the dictionary

  1. psychohistorically
  2. psychohistories
  3. psychohistory
  4. psychohydraulic
  5. psychohydraulics
  6. psychoid
  7. psychoids
  8. psychoimmunologic
  9. psychoimmunological
  10. psychoimmunology
  11. psychojargon

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