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How to use psychologically in a sentence

27 example sentences · adverb

Psychologically means in a psychological sense. Example: “The new novel is a psychologically complex thriller.”

Examples of psychologically by meaning

adverbIn 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

adverbEmploying psychology.

  • The patient's behaviour was interpreted psychologically.

More sentences with psychologically

  • It was like everything caught up on me at once — emotionally, mentally and psychologically.2015, Julie O'Toole, Heroin. From the entry in bits
  • This is the fusion of two people who are neurally and biologically (and so, psychologically) identical.2002, Philosophical Topics, volume 30, number 1, page 276. From the entry fusee
  • Psychologically, humans misconsume when, for example, they fall into the advertiser's trap of "perpetual dissatisfaction."2002, Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, Ken Conca, Confronting Consumption, page 33. From the entry misconsume
  • As intimaters of character, planets psychologically represent psychic factors or reaction patterns.1990, Karen Hamaker-Zondag, Aspects and Personality, page 29. From the entry intimater
  • Somehow his maidlike service to her collapsed what she was building up, psychologically.1978, Marc Edmund Jones, Man, magic, and fantasy: the domestication of imagination. From the entry maidlike
  • That, I protest, is a doctrine psychologically impossible and ethically abhorrent.1936, Paul E. More, On Being Human. From the entry abhorrent
  • Behaviourally these three paraphilias do share some characteristics and show overlapping of certain features, but psychologically they are diverse.2018 March 2, Sunil M. Doshi, Kalpesh Zanzrukiya, Lavlesh Kumar, “Paraphilic infantilism, diaperism and pedophilia: A review”, in Journal…. From the entry diaperism
  • Paradoxically counterbalancing this psychologically defined feature is the second, evreiskaja otver-zhennost’ (Jewish outcastness), which pushes the Jew toward sociological disintegration.2008, Vivian Liska, Contemporary Jewish Writing in Europe: A Guide, page 198. From the entry outcastness
  • We have to go under ground to find out who we are as women; self-knowledge requires that we be psychologically subversive.2002, Lyn Cowan, “Women and the land: Imagination and reality”, in Tracking the White Rabbit: A Subversive View of Modern Culture, Hove…. From the entry under ground
  • No nonperson is psychologically indistinguishable from you.2001, Eric T. Olson, “A Compound of Two Substances”, in Soul, Body, and Survival, page 77. From the entry nonperson
  • Would one align with time as we presently experience it psychologically while the other would somehow be "different"?1999, Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, W. W. Norton & Company…. From the entry time
  • Psychologically, Ho’oleilana challenges our cognitive biases.2024 September 4, Ine Velaers, “The Ho’oleilana Enigma: A Cosmic Revelation with Business, Psychological, and Economic Consequences”, in…. From the entry Ho'oleilana
  • “I always joke with people that I’m a department store pricer, because I think that psychologically the first number has an impact,” said Frederick W.2007 February 18, Teri Karush Rogers, “The Psychology of Pricing”, in New York Times. From the entry pricer
  • He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie — culturally and psychologically — but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late.2006, Robert Ordona, quoting Ang Lee, “"Brokeback Mountain" — as gay as it gets: An interview with Ang Lee”, in Gay.com, archived from the…. From the entry homophobe
  • Musically, what originally attracted me to dance was its shamanist aspects, using natural magic to change people's neurological states and to psychologically empower them.1992, Nick Logan, The Face, page 11-130. From the entry empower
  • Delumeau are analyzed theologically and psychologically.1990 September 23, Wendy Doniger, “Why the Body Is Disgusting”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2022. From the entry theologically
  • When a student concludes that education is not "where it's at," he is ready to drop out physically or turn off psychologically.1973, Performance objectives in education, Educational Technology Publications, Incorporated. From the entry where it's at
  • Whatever your views about the rights and wrongs of these military campaigns, you would probably agree that it is psychologically easier to kill 'gooks' and 'turkeys' than human beings.2015, Richard van de Lagemaat, Theory of Knowledge for the IB Diploma, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 106. From the entry warspeak
  • James Flexner calls Hamilton “by far the most psychologically troubled of the founders,” even a “semimadman” at times—without wondering if this form of semimadness has a name.2008, John D. Gartner, The Hypomanic Edge, page 59. From the entry semimadman
  • Maybe ideally the whole thing is dynamic, as Bryan says, a constant hodiernally shifting thing depending on what you need today psychologically, emotionally, socially, and physically.2007, TheStockholmSyndrome, “Forum Post - Re. What do you eat...why?”, in Living and Raw Foods - The Largest Community on the Internet…. From the entry hodiernally
  • Little Miss Jane Berbie, the war-mongress Preziosilla, sings well and with a fetching verse and she added the gaiety this heavy tragedy opera with its psychologically unreal thinking needs.1969 March 19, Doris Reno, “A Stage Full of Top Voices in ‘Forza del Destino’”, in The Miami Herald, 59th year, number 109, page 8-B. From the entry mongress
  • My view is psychocentric in that a judgment which appears to have an objective reference is found psychologically to have a reference, unsuspected by the person judging, to himself.1936, J[ohn] O[ulton] Wisdom, “Towards the Psychocentric Conception of Right”, in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, volume XXXVI…. From the entry psychocentric
  • Thus psychologically broken, they're offered a lifeline: Nicky and Co. offer to shave a decade off their fizzogs courtesy of a haircut, a makeover and a faceload of plastic surgery.2005 February 26, Charlie Brooker, The Guardian. From the entry fizzog
  • Psychologically, the transexual often differs from the simple cross-dresser; he is conscious at all times of a strong desire to be a woman, and the urge can be truly consuming.1965, John F. Oliven, “Sexual Deviations”, in Sexual Hygiene and Pathology: A Manual for the Physician and the Professions, 2nd edition…. From the entry transvestism

Meaning of psychologically

  1. adverb In a psychological sense.
  2. adverb Employing psychology.

Full definition of psychologically

Questions about psychologically in a sentence

How do you use psychologically in a sentence?
Psychologically is used as an adverb. For example: “The new novel is a psychologically complex thriller.”
What is a short sentence with psychologically?
“Delumeau are analyzed theologically and psychologically.”
What does psychologically mean?
Psychologically means in a psychological sense.

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