psychic
/ˈsaɪkɪk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.80 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who possesses, or appears to possess, extrasensory abilities such as clairvoyance, precognition and telepathy, as well as potentially interact externally using their minds or souls through telekinesis or teleportation, or who appears to be susceptible to paranormal or supernatural influences.
noun
A person who supposedly contacts the dead; a medium.
noun
In gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man, the second-highest type; a person focused on intellectual reality (the other two being hylic and pneumatic).
Example Sentences
- "You must be psychic—I was just about to say that."
- "She is a psychic person—she hears messages from beyond."
- "Having exhausted the sporting adventures of this terrestrial globe, he is now turning to those of the dim, dark and dubious regions of psychic research."
- "In the following pages I shall demonstrate that there is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and that on the application of this technique every dream will reveal itself as a psychological structure, full of significance, and one which may be assigned to a specific place in the psychic activities of the waking state."
- "A pathological process called 'psychiatrosis' may well be found, by the same methods, to be a delineable entity, with somatic correlates, and psychic mechanisms […]"
- "Merely by comprehending this, the lack of support that black feminists have for being black feminists, white women might be able to give at least psychic and preferably practical support to black women who they know and not assume that it means the same thing for us to be feminists and lesbians as it does for them to be feminists and lesbians."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ψυχικός
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsaɪkɪk/
- British English: /ˈsaɪkɪk/
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
psychic bid
psychic cost
psychic death
psychic driving
psychic expenditure
psychic income
psychic numbing
psychic photography