PSYCHIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does psychic mean? 

• PSYCHIC (noun)
  The noun PSYCHIC has 1 sense:

1. a person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception

  Familiarity information: PSYCHIC used as a noun is very rare.

• PSYCHIC (adjective)
  The adjective PSYCHIC has 2 senses:

1. affecting or influenced by the human mind

2. outside the sphere of physical science

  Familiarity information: PSYCHIC used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PSYCHIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("psychic" is a kind of...):

occultist (a believer in occultism; someone versed in the occult arts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "psychic"):

clairvoyant (someone who has the power of clairvoyance)

medium; sensitive; spiritualist (someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead)

spirit rapper (someone who claims to receive messages from the dead in the form of raps on a table)

Derivation:

psychic (outside the sphere of physical science)

• PSYCHIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Affecting or influenced by the human mind

Synonyms:

psychic; psychical

Context example:

psychic trauma

Similar:

mental (involving the mind or an intellectual process)

Derivation:

psyche (that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Outside the sphere of physical science

Synonyms:

psychic; psychical

Context example:

psychic phenomena

Similar:

paranormal (not in accordance with scientific laws)

Derivation:

psychic (a person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception)

 Context examples 

Hamilton Depression Rating Scale 17 Item (HAMD-17) Anxiety psychic.

(HAMD-17 - Psychic Anxiety, NCI Thesaurus)

Clinical manifestation of the digestive system consisting of contraction of the muscle of the pharynx caused by stimulation of sensory receptors on the soft palate, by psychic stimuli, or systemically by drugs.

(Gagging, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A brain disorder characterized by episodes of abnormally increased neuronal discharge resulting in transient episodes of sensory or motor neurological dysfunction, or psychic dysfunction.

(Epilepsy, NCI Thesaurus)

He smiled on me in quite a superior sort of way—such a smile as would have become the face of Malvolio—as he answered me:—The fly, my dear sir, has one striking feature; its wings are typical of the aërial powers of the psychic faculties.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Symptoms vary with different lesion locations and may include but not limited to the motor (e.g. rhythmic muscle contractions in one area of the body), somatosensory and sensory alterations manifested by abnormal numbness, paresthesias or other hallucinations, including several types of aura; autonomic and psychic symptoms, e.g. with changes in speech, thought, personality, mood, sensation of deja vu or hallucinations.

(Partial Seizure, NCI Thesaurus)

Drug dependence - replaced the term drug addiction and is defined as a state, psychic and sometimes also physical, resulting from the interaction between a living organism and a drug, characterized by behavioral and other responses that always include a compulsion to take the drug on a continuous or periodic basis in order to experience its psychic effects, and sometimes to avoid the discomfort of its absence.

(Drug Dependence, NCI Thesaurus)