psychic
/ˈsʌɪkɪk
/adjective
1Relating to or denoting faculties or phenomena that are apparently inexplicable by natural laws, especially involving telepathy or clairvoyance: psychic powers...
- Any other form of remote viewing can best be termed, he says, as a psychic experience or clairvoyance.
- He also reported cases that suggest that experiences interpreted as ESP or other types of psychic phenomena can have the same effects.
- Parapsychology has distinguished itself by objective study of psychic phenomena.
Synonyms
supernatural, paranormal, other-worldly, supernormal, preternatural, metaphysical, extrasensory, transcendental, magic, magical, mystical, mystic, occult
rare necromantic
clairvoyant, telepathic, telekinetic, spiritualistic, with second sight, with a sixth sense
1.1Appearing or considered to have powers of telepathy or clairvoyance: I could sense it—I must be psychic...
- If it's an experiment, you might want to start by inviting people to read your mind - or whatever - and establish a success rate among a few individuals who appear to be psychic enough to get in.
- After this experience Dannion became quite psychic, which was witnessed by others.
- From there, several different people entered and exited the room, all claiming to be psychic and telepathic and telekinetic amongst other things.
2Relating to the soul or mind: he dulled his psychic pain with gin...
- In the West, the target of cruelty centuries ago shifted from the body to the soul, to psychic pain - but the morality behind the practice remains.
- According to the old syllabus for our sentimental education, psychic pain is part of the material that must be mastered for human growth to take place.
- Long, long ago these deities had consumed their worshippers unto extinction for the psychic sustenance their dying souls provided.
Synonyms
emotional, spiritual, inner;
cognitive, psychological, intellectual, mental, psychiatric, psychogenic
rare psychical, mindly, phrenic
3 Bridge Denoting a bid that deliberately misrepresents the bidder’s hand, in order to mislead the opponents.
noun
1A person considered or claiming to have psychic powers; a medium: pier-end palmists and fake psychics...
- Alan Vaughan was a psychic who claimed, among other wonders, to have prophetic dreams.
- No psychic, despite their claims, has ever helped the police solve a crime.
- Or think of the pet psychic who claims she can read your dog's mind by looking at a photo of the dog.
Synonyms
clairvoyant, fortune teller, prophet, seer, soothsayer, forecaster of the future, crystal gazer, astrologer, prognosticator, prophesier, oracle, augur, sibyl, Cassandra, mind reader, palmist, palm reader, chiromancer, medium, telepathist, spiritualist, spiritist
rare necromancer, chirosophist, palmister
1.1 (psychics) [treated as singular or plural] The study of psychic phenomena: the field of psychics...
- Somehow they managed to take a super cool topic and ruin it with a bunch of math and psychics.
- Embarrassingly, various ladies in my family continue to cling to a belief in psychics, guardian angels, and other such bunk.
Derivatives
psychical
/ adjectivesense 1 of the adjective. ...- Mesmerists, spiritualists and psychical researchers alike maintained that there is a specific state of mystical trance that initiates persons into the experiential source of all true religious awareness.
- I would like to, as it were, reincarnate the spirit of psychical research in parapsychology, and I would like to give heart to those who have these interests and motivations: You are not alone.
- That is why future servicemen should not be ‘drilled’ but should be given systematic training with the utmost exertion of mental, psychical and physical powers.
psychically
- Such a view ignores the extent to which intellectuals and politicians feed psychically on one another's approval.
- I was confronted with teachers I psychically sensed didn't believe what they were teaching.
- Conflicting emotions were brought up in the process, and we used our counseling skills to work through these and find ways to transform them, both visually and psychically.
psychism
- Also, as discussed earlier, psychism theory predicts that psychism reduces conformist beliefs and communal practices, and increases moral autonomy.
- On the other hand, intrusions defined as psychism are interpreted as messages from the spirit world that have accompanying moral imperatives, or as ‘proof’ of extrasensory perceptions or other esoteric beliefs.
- Ultimately, because moral autonomy is not compatible with commitment to religious organizations, people who experience high levels of psychism should also have lower levels of participation in communal religious practices.
Origin
Early 19th century: from Greek psukhikos (see psyche1).