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psychology
  1. (uncountable) The study of the human mind.
  2. (uncountable) The study of human behavior.
  3. (uncountable) The study of animal behavior.
  4. (countable) The mental, emotional, and behavioral characteristics pertaining to a specified person, group, or activity.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “The hardest thing about playing Julie was dealing with the psychology of her fractured persona.”
      “The allure of scientific precision had drawn me into studying psychology, and social psychology with its focus on how people live their lives captured my imagination.”
      “He is a recognized expert in linguistics and cognitive science, the study of the philosophy and psychology of the mind and intelligence.”
psychic
  1. A person who possesses, or appears to possess, extra-sensory abilities such as precognition, clairvoyance and telepathy, or who appears to be susceptible to paranormal or supernatural influence.
  2. A person who supposedly contacts the dead; a medium.
  3. (Gnosticism) In gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man the second type; a person focused on intellectual reality (the other two being hylic and pneumatic).
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The third woman on his list, Carmen, is a psychic who claims to communicate with dead animals.”
psycho
  1. (pejorative) A person who is psychotic or otherwise insane.
  2. (pejorative) A person who acts in a bizarre or dangerous manner.
  3. (informal) A class, at a college or university, in which psychology is taught.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “He wanted out more than ever, but it would take a braver man than Vern to say no to someone who was officially a psycho.”
psych
psyche
  1. The human soul, mind, or spirit.
  2. (chiefly psychology) The human mind as the central force in thought, emotion, and behavior of an individual.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The human psyche has a tremendous capacity for recovery and even growth.”
      “Ramesh felt frustrated in the beginning, but slowly developed constructive thoughts in his psyche.”
psychosis
  1. (psychology) A severe mental disorder, sometimes with physical damage to the brain, marked by a deranged personality and a distorted view of reality.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In consequence, the author counsels vigorous treatment for psychosis and prophylaxis for those at risk of it.”
      “Only intermittently do you see a hint of the psychosis you know must be a part of his makeup.”
      “The main differential diagnosis of delirium is from a functional psychosis and from dementia.”
psychotherapy
  1. The treatment of people diagnosed with mental and emotional disorders using dialogue and a variety of psychological techniques.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Nor did Pope Pius XII eschew the field of psychotherapy, if one credits his allocutions to those who practiced in the field.”
      “When the day of amputation is growing close, supportive psychotherapy should be started.”
      “Unlike medicine and allied professions, psychotherapy has established itself primarily outside the state sector.”
psychotomimesis
  1. (pathology) The onset of psychotic symptoms following the administration of a drug.
psychspeak
psychologism
  1. (philosophy) The tendency to describe things in psychological or subjective terms
  2. Examples:
    1. “Secondly, Glock defends Strawson's dismissal of transcendental idealism and transcendental psychologism.”
      “The main enemies are psychologism, reductionism, idealism, and the distortion of the phenomena by philosophical systems.”
      “This disappearance of objective knowledge in Western philosophy has continued in other idealist and subjective guises-positivism, materialism, psychologism and historicism.”
psychologese
  1. The specialised language (or jargon) of psychology
psychicist
  1. Someone who studies psychic behaviour or phenomena. [from 19th c.]
psychotogenesis
  1. (medicine) The development of psychosis.
psychothriller
psychotherapist
  1. Someone who practices psychotherapy.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He taught religion and depth psychology at universities and colleges and was a psychotherapist in private practice for over twenty years.”
      “A licensed psychotherapist, she devotes much of her time to traveling to schools to speak about her experiences.”
      “It's a mail reader, news reader, web browser, program development environment, Lisp interpreter and psychotherapist.”
psychologist
  1. An expert in the field of psychology.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He's a clinical and forensic psychologist who works at a psychiatric hospital, and a research fellow at Cambridge's Institute of Criminology.”
      “She has been immortalized by the author for she is no ordinary vamp but one who is not only a subtle wooer but a patient psychologist.”
      “In her experiment, psychologist Penny Pexman of the University of Calgary found that children as young as five were able to detect verbal irony.”
psychicism
  1. The study of psychic ability.
psychologue
  1. (dated) A psychologist.
psychics
  1. plural of psychic
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It's reasonable to suppose that good psychics, like good hitters in baseball, succeed only a modest fraction of the time.”
      “Also, because readings involve energy flow and transfer between two people, not all psychics are compatible with all clients.”
      “He categorized the patterns as engineers, psychics, healers, millionaires, and remote viewers.”
psychics
  1. (obsolete) psychology
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It's reasonable to suppose that good psychics, like good hitters in baseball, succeed only a modest fraction of the time.”
      “Also, because readings involve energy flow and transfer between two people, not all psychics are compatible with all clients.”
      “He categorized the patterns as engineers, psychics, healers, millionaires, and remote viewers.”
psychotic
psychotherapists
psychothrillers
  1. plural of psychothriller
psychotherapies
  1. plural of psychotherapy
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Among the psychotherapies for children and adolescents, parent management training is without peer.”
      “Inadequate results of psychotherapies have necessitated a search for alternative treatments.”
      “Unfortunately, as with pharmacotherapy, the effects of most psychotherapies upon alcoholism are impressive mainly over the short term.”
psychologisms
  1. plural of psychologism
psychologists
  1. plural of psychologist
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Child psychologists are being brought into a borough's schools in a bid to pull up performance in key tests and exams.”
      “And there is a severe shortage of American Indian psychologists and other mental health professionals available to meet those needs.”
      “I don't think psychologists have to deal with their own computers when they start to act up.”
psychologues
  1. plural of psychologue
psychicists
  1. plural of psychicist
psychologies
  1. plural of psychology
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  3. Examples:
    1. “While many movies attempt to imitate the personal psychologies of cops and criminals, Dark Blue hits closer to the mark than most.”
      “A similar weakness is inherent in psychologies based on adjustment or adaptation.”
      “The election, he must remind voters, is really about something more than the personalities, and the psychologies, of the two major candidates.”
psychoses
  1. plural of psychosis
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  3. Examples:
    1. “There is broad consensus that cognitive deficits play a crucial role for both the pathogenesis and prognosis of schizophrenic psychoses.”
      “How strong is the evidence that cannabis is causally implicated in the precipitation or exacerbation of schizophrenia and other psychoses?”
      “Self-hatred is accompanied in extreme cases by paranoid, schizophrenic, or manic-depressive psychoses.”
psychotics
  1. plural of psychotic
  2. Examples:
    1. “I saw this whole bunch of young people going crazy, plunging into the counterculture, becoming psychotics, among the Baby Boomer generation.”
      “It was pretentious, and manipulative and was trying to give psychotics a good name.”
      “It opens like three psychotics running around at full speed in an unpadded cell, bouncing into walls and bashing into each other.”
psyches
psychos
  1. plural of psycho
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  3. Examples:
    1. “For too long sword-wielding psychos have been brought down with bullets or capsicum spray, methods which are not only unfair, but inelegant.”
      “Second, my best friend and crush is being stalked by crazy, murderous psychos.”
      “So, now living in a house, first floor only, I could likely be a prime target for any kind of scaries and psychos to walk in and get me.”
psychs
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