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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ψυχικός (psukhikós) + -al. By surface analysis, psyche + -ical.
Pronunciation
Adjective
psychical (not comparable)
- Performed by or pertaining to the psyche (the mind, spirit, or both): mental, psychic.
1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter IV, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 85:Who could say where the fleshly impulse ceased, or the psychical impulse began?
1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt , London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:"The physical body has rather been a source of pain and fatigue to us. It is the constant index of our limitations. Why then should we worry about its detachment from our psychical selves?" "If they can indeed be detached," Summerlee grumbled.
- (theology) Pertaining to the animal nature of man, as opposed to the spirit.
- Outside the realm of the physical; supernatural, psychic.
Antonyms
Translations
pertaining to the mind; mental
pertaining to the animal nature of man
outside the realm of the physical