psychic
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8.4
- adjective
- /ˈsaɪkɪk/
:
paranormal
- Many people believe in psychic abilities, which allow some individuals to see things beyond normal sight.
- psychic experiences
- mystical and psychic
- spiritual and psychic
It's not, it's not like psychic, it's just being prescient.
- It's not, it's not like psychic, it's just being prescient.
- So we've done auras, we've done time, we've done psychic abilities.
- And she goes into psychic mode and says that I'm going to go.
- I don't have like psychic abilities, unfortunately.
- Certainly less likely to be scammed by psychic or medical charlatans.
- Casper, you are my psychic prisoner.
- Leave the mind reading to the crystal balls and purveyors of psychic magic.
- Well, the purple is sort of represents like empathy and psychic abilities.
- You are not an individual, Elizabeth, who believed in fairies and unicorns and auras and psychic experiences.
- All Macs who do like a psychic thing, they're all phony.
- Breath is psychic, hence it's connection with the departed.
Examples
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I'm psychic.
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Do I look like the kind of person who would claim psychic powers?
Fiction book (1997) -
I think finally we're living in a moment of great psychic change.
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This is not evidence for psychic powers, which many people say it is, but nobody really knows why this exists.
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The group here has the potential to function as a cell, a psychic battery.
Fiction book (1995) -
All the forces, social, psychic, cosmic are against you.
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Without going into that entire story, I had been working all along with a psychic counselor.
Academic text (2001) -
There are other apparent psychic phenomena, but these four are the most well-established.
Academic text (1993) -
The experience of doing something you've never done before carries so much creative value and so much psychic value that it's worth having just for the sake of having it.
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Because I'm Johnny Wishbone, psychic extraordinaire.
Synonyms
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6.7
Not explained by nature or science and believed to come from other forces
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7.0
Science cannot explain things like ghosts or people moving objects with their mind
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9.9
About experiences like telepathy and ghosts that science cannot explain
1
9.9
About mental powers people say are supernatural, like telepathy and clairvoyance
Compounds
- Specialized
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7.9
A very strong emotional hurt that stays for a long time after a frightening or sad event
Communication using claimed mind powers instead of normal sight or hearing
How Paranormal
Surface Forms
Morphology
psychic = psyche (semi-transparent) = psych + ic
Formally derived from 'psyche' + '-ic', but the specialized supernatural meaning (e.g., telepathy, clairvoyance) is a narrowed/extended sense not fully predictable from 'psyche' alone.
Etymology
Psychic comes from the Greek root psyche 'soul' or 'mind', and it was used for things of the inner mind that seem to go beyond the body. That's why psychic can also mean 'not explained by physical science'—the idea of hidden mental powers like seeing the future or sensing things others cannot.