psychical
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9.9
- adjective
- /ˈsaɪkɪkəl/
:
psíquico
- James wrote on psychical research every year until his death in 1910; it was his single most consuming intellectual passion.
- psychical research
And I think it was a psychical medium, whatever that led them to where they were burnt in the forest.
- And I think it was a psychical medium, whatever that led them to where they were burnt in the forest.
- As pains are painful, some of these are mainly bodily, others mental or psychical.
Examples
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Now, he had a very interesting hobby: psychical research.
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The aim of the Scottish Institute for Psychical Research... is to evaluate the evidence for the paranormal under the strictest scientific conditions.
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The Society for Psychical Research in London has done a great deal of work on it.
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The procedures for field studies in the area of psychical research have been most explicit on this point.
Academic text (1995) -
Students familiar with psychical research know that a significant amount of evidence suggests that some aspect of human personality survives death.
Academic text (1995) -
Maurice Grosse is an engineering consultant and has been investigating these claims for the Society of Psychical Research.
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However, at least two writers acquainted with psychical research, Andrew Lang and Caesar de Vesme, were interested in the parapsychological origins of magic and religion.
Academic text (1995) -
The Scottish Institute for psychical Research conducts studies to explore supernatural phenomena.
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Many people find psychical phenomena intriguing, often discussing experiences that seem to defy scientific explanation.
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Her interest in psychical matters led her to join a group dedicated to researching the paranormal.
Synonyms
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8.4
About events or abilities that cannot be explained by science, like telepathy
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6.7
Not explained by nature or science and believed to come from other forces
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7.1
Having a spiritual quality that feels beyond normal understanding
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8.1
Having a strong spiritual quality or seeming mysterious
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7.0
Appearing like a ghost
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9.9
About experiences like telepathy and ghosts that science cannot explain
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9.8
Light and delicate with a feeling of something not physical
Relating to the mind or soul rather than the body
Relating to belief in ghosts, spirits, or forces beyond nature
About the mind or spirit rather than the body
Antonyms
Compounds
How Paranormal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Psychical comes from the Greek root psyche, which means 'soul' or 'mind' and is the same root in psychic. So psychical can mean things of the mind or strange, paranormal events that seem to go beyond the physical world.