metapsychic

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English

Etymology

From meta- +‎ psychic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌmɛtəˈsaɪkɪk/

Adjective

metapsychic (not comparable)

  1. Being or pertaining to something (for example, telepathy) that is outside the realm of orthodox psychology, or (more broadly) beyond scientifically-explainable psychic (mental) abilities (compare metaphysical, supernatural).
    • 1911, Popular Science Monthly and World's Advance, page 371:
      REALITY AND TRUTH by Professor T. D. A. [...] Reality may be conceived of as having three aspects, the know- able or scientific, the imaginable or metaphysic, and the unimaginable or metapsychic.
    • 1959, New Problems in Medical Ethics:
      Research in these matters is of special concern for a Christian, because metapsychic phenomena have often been lumped together with Christian miracles by those who have studied them.
    • 2017, Charles Richet, Thirty Years of Psychical Research, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 52:
      Such a development would be a metapsychic phenomenon. On my asking Stella for the name of one of the women who tended my infancy, she replied, “Melanie.” I was not thinking of Melanie, and I am most positively sure that this name [...] has never been uttered by me. In this case I am obliged to infer a metapsychic phenomenon.