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PSYCHICAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does psychical mean?
• PSYCHICAL (adjective)
The adjective PSYCHICAL has 2 senses:
1. affecting or influenced by the human mind
2. outside the sphere of physical science
Familiarity information: PSYCHICAL used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
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)
psyche (the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Outside the sphere of physical science
Synonyms:
psychic; psychical
Context example:
psychic phenomena
Similar:
paranormal (not in accordance with scientific laws)
Context examples
“It simply means that in the attack on my brain the higher psychical centres are untouched. I can remember, I can think and reason. When that goes, I go. I am not. The soul?”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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