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psychic

Pronunciation: /ˈsʌɪkɪk/

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Definition of psychic

adjective

  • 1relating to or denoting faculties or phenomena that are apparently inexplicable by natural laws, especially involving telepathy or clairvoyance:psychic powers
  • appearing or considered to have powers of telepathy or clairvoyance:I could sense it—I must be psychic
  • 2relating to the soul or mind:he dulled his psychic pain with gin
  • 3 Bridge denoting a bid that deliberately misrepresents the bidder’s hand, in order to mislead the opponents.

noun

  • a person considered or claiming to have psychic powers; a medium: pier-end palmists and fake psychics
  • (psychics) [treated as singular or plural] the study of psychic phenomena: the field of psychics

Derivatives

psychical

adjective
psychic (sense 1 of the adjective).

psychically

adverb

psychism

Pronunciation: /-ɪz(ə)m/

noun
psychic (sense 1 of the adjective).

Origin:

early 19th century: from Greek psukhikos (see psyche1)

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