psychic
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Noun (1)psychics
- a person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perceptionType of occultistKinds medium, spirit rapper, clairvoyant
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Translations
Noun person who possesses, or appears to possess, extra-sensory
Noun person who contacts the dead
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. psychicus, Gr. …, fr. ψυχή the soul, mind; cf. … to blow: cf. F. psychique.
1. Of or pertaining to the human soul, or to the living principle in man.
☞ This term was formerly used to express the same idea as psychological. Recent metaphysicians, however, have employed it to mark the difference between ψυχή the living principle in man, and πνεῦμα the rational or spiritual part of his nature. In this use, the word describes the human soul in its relation to sense, appetite, and the outer visible world, as distinguished from spiritual or rational faculties, which have to do with the supersensible world. Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Heyse
2. Of or pertaining to the mind, or its functions and diseases; mental; — contrasted with physical.
Psychical blindness, Psychical deafness Medicine, forms of nervous disease in which, while the senses of sight and hearing remain unimpaired, the mind fails to appreciate the significance of the sounds heard or the images seen. — Psychical contagion, the transference of disease, especially of a functional nervous disease, by mere force of example. — Psychical medicine, that department of medicine which treats of mental diseases.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54