Psychic

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  • noun. A person apparently responsive to psychic forces.
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  • adjective. Of, relating to, affecting, or influenced by the human mind or psyche; mental.
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  • adjective. Capable of extraordinary mental processes, such as extrasensory perception and mental telepathy.
  • adjective. Of or relating to such mental processes.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or belonging to the human soul or mind; mental; spiritual; psychological.
  • Pertaining to the science of mind: opposed to physical: as, psychic force.
  • Pertaining to the class of extraordinary and obscure phenomena, such as thought-reading, which are not ordinarily treated by psychologists: as, psychic research.
  • Pertaining to the lower soul, or animal principle, and not to the spirit, or higher soul.
  • noun. A person specially susceptible of psychic impressions, or subject to psychic force; a medium; a sensitive.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to the human soul, or to the living principle in man.
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to the mind, or its functions and diseases; mental; -- contrasted with physical.
  • adjective. forms of nervous disease in which, while the senses of sight and hearing remain unimpaired, the mind fails to appreciate the significance of the sounds heard or the images seen.
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  • adjective. the transference of disease, especially of a functional nervous disease, by mere force of example.
  • adjective. that department of medicine which treats of mental diseases.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A person who supposedly contacts the dead. A medium.
  • noun. In gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man the second type; a person focused on intellectual reality (the other two being hylic and pneumatic).
  • adjective. Relating to the abilities of a psychic.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. affecting or influenced by the human mind
  • noun. a person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception
  • adjective. outside the sphere of physical science
  • Word Usage
    "Lifton may have coined the term "psychic numbing," but his own sensitivity and capacity for empathy remains undiminished."
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