psychologically
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5.3
- adverb
- /saɪˈkɑlədʒɪkli/
:
psicológicamente
- The therapist emphasized that psychologically, it is important to address our emotions to improve our overall well-being.
- physically and psychologically
- socially and psychologically
- psychologically manipulated
And it's hard psychologically to think that they might be wrong.
- And it's hard psychologically to think that they might be wrong.
- So your brain psychologically learns like a lab rat.
- It's changing horses midstream and psychologically for your audience, it just doesn't work.
- In other words, you might feel psychologically winded.
- He had belittled her, demeaned her, psychologically, tortured her for decades.
- OK, so it's the same thing psychologically or spiritually.
- Really bad idea, both psychologically and physically, a recipe for breakdown.
- If the culture is psychologically safe, that's the key to speak up.
- And if they can't, it can be psychologically damaging to them.
- So there are people who are predisposed psychologically to greed and the power they're pawns.
- I mean, it is the psychologically worst thing that you could do, in my opinion.
- Like they're not trying to psychologically, you know, F with you.
Examples
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The association of meditation with dreaming may reflect a psychologically minded approach to training.
Academic text (1990) -
Teaching is a profession that often leaves one psychologically tired, although the body may not be.
Academic text (1991) -
And it's hard psychologically to think that they might be wrong.
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What gives you strength psychologically to keep going?
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In these circumstances, a truly new beginning is psychologically much more difficult.
Academic text (1992) -
Money is tied to you feeling psychologically safe.
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I think that it's quite an intelligent program, psychologically speaking.
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As a result of protective factors, psychologically resilient people are less affected by negative events.
Academic text (2012) -
If the culture is psychologically safe, that's the key to speak up.
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Most arrived physically and psychologically exhausted, with few, if any, possessions.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
395
3.2
Happens in the mind rather than in the body
Surface Forms
Morphology
psychologically = psychological (transparent) = psychology + ical + ly
The adverb is formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to the clear adjective 'psychological'.
Etymology
Psychologically comes from the Greek word psyche meaning 'mind' or 'soul' and the part -logy meaning 'study', as in psychology, with the ending -ly that turns it into 'in a ... way'. So, psychologically means 'in a way that relates to the mind'.