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psychologically

psychologically adverb: in a psychological sense.

Adverb

psychologically (not comparable)

  1. In a psychological sense.
    • The new novel is a psychologically complex thriller.
    • In good times and bad, in sickness and health, the benefits of friendships between women are physically and psychologically undeniable.2024 August 4, Terry Ward, “Fragile and complex, female friendships hinge on the three S’s, a new book says”, in CNN
  2. Employing psychology.
    • The patient's behaviour was interpreted psychologically.
    • The economics of rebuilding all the stations covered by the electrification would be prohibitive, but to help bring home to the Glasgow public that their North Clyde suburban service has been transformed, not merely re-equipped with new trains, stations have at least been associated psychologically...1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714

Examples of psychologically in a sentence

  • It was like everything caught up on me at once — emotionally, mentally and psychologically.
  • This is the fusion of two people who are neurally and biologically (and so, psychologically) identical.
  • Psychologically, humans misconsume when, for example, they fall into the advertiser's trap of "perpetual dissatisfaction."

All 27 example sentences with psychologically

Origin of psychologically

From psychological + -ly.

Words formed from psychologically

Questions about psychologically

What does psychologically mean?
Psychologically means in a psychological sense.
What part of speech is psychologically?
Psychologically is an adverb.

Words near psychologically in the dictionary

  1. psychological refractory periods
  2. psychological slip
  3. psychological slips
  4. psychological warfare
  5. psychologicality
  6. psychologically
  7. psychologicalness
  8. psychologics
  9. psychologies
  10. psychologise
  11. psychologised

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