psychical
/ˈsʌɪkɪk(ə)l/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.37 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to the animal nature of man, as opposed to the spirit.
adj
Outside the realm of the physical; supernatural, psychic.
Example Sentences
- "Who could say where the fleshly impulse ceased, or the psychical impulse began?"
- "Even more perhaps than other kinds of genius, religious leaders have been subject to abnormal psychical visitations. Invariably they have been creatures of exalted emotional sensibility."
- ""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."
- ""Thus every form, every object, every external phenomenon," says Vignoli, "becomes vivified and animated by the intrinsic consciousness and personal psychical faculty of the animal itself."
- "It has been shown that PQQ could be involved in the treatment of neurological and psychical disorders. For example, it was demonstrated to have excellent neuroprotective efficacy in vitro and in vivo models of NMDAR-mediated or other neurotoxicant, such as methylmercury and 6-hydroxydopamine, induced neurotoxicity and electrical responses [4], to reduce the infarct size in animals with hypoxia and ischemia [5], to protect hippocampal neurons from the increase of the intracellular Ca²⁺ level and to be effective in an animal model of epilepsy [6]."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈsʌɪkɪk(ə)l/