Definition of psychic Psychic

/sajˈkɪk/ - [saykik] - psy•chic

We found 11 definitions of psychic from 6 different sources.

What does psychic mean?

WordNet

Noun Plural: psychics
psychic - a person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception
		occultist a believer in occultism; someone versed in the occult arts
		clairvoyant someone who has the power of clairvoyance
		sensitive, spiritualist, medium an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication
Adjective psychic, psychiccer, psychiccest
psychic - affecting or influenced by the human mind; "psychic energy"; "psychic trauma"
		psychical
		mental affected by a disorder of the mind; "a mental patient"; "mental illness"
psychic - outside the sphere of physical science; "psychic phenomena"
		psychical
		paranormal not in accordance with scientific laws; "what seemed to be paranormal manifestations"

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Wiktionary

psychic (Noun)
A person who possesses, or appears to possess, extra-sensory abilities such as precognition, clairvoyance and telepathy, or who appears to be susceptible to paranormal or supernatural influence.
psychic (Noun)
A person who supposedly contacts the dead. A medium.
psychic (Noun)
In gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man the second type; a person focused on intellectual reality the other two being hylic and pneumatic.
psychic (Adjective)
Relating to the abilities of a psychic.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

psychic (a.)
Alt. of Psychical

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

psychic
Of or pertaining to the soul.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

psychic
-al, sī′kik, -al, adj. pertaining to the soul, or living principle in man: spiritual: pertaining to the mind, or to its faculties and functions.—ns. Psy′che, the personified soul or spirit: the human soul or spirit or mind: a genus of bombycid moths: a cheval-glass; Psychī′ater, Psychī′atrist, one who treats diseases of the mind, an alienist; Psychī′atry, the treatment of mental diseases; Psy′chic, a spiritualistic medium; Psy′chics, the science of psychology; Psy′chism, the doctrine that there is a universal soul animating all living beings; Psy′chist; Psychogen′esis, Psychog′eny, the origination and development of the soul; Psychog′ony, the doctrine of the development of mind; Psy′chograph, an instrument used for so-called spirit-writing.—adj. Psychograph′ic.—n. Psychog′raphy, the natural history of mind: supposed spirit-writing by the hand of a medium.—adjs. Psycholog′ic, -al, pertaining to psychology: pertaining to the mind.—adv. Psycholog′ically.—v.i. Psychol′ogise.—ns. Psychol′ogist, one who studies psychology; Psychol′ogy, the science which classifies and analyses the phenomena or varying states of the human mind; Psychom′achy, a conflict of soul with body; Psy′chomancy, necromancy; Psychom′etry, the science of the measurement of the duration, &c., of mental processes: an occult power claimed by some charlatans of divining the secret properties of things by mere contact.—adj. Psy′chomōtor, pertaining to such mental action as induces muscular contraction.—ns. Psychoneurol′ogy, that part of neurology which deals with mental action; Psychoneurō′sis, mental disease without apparent anatomical lesion; Psychon′omy, the science of the laws of mental action; Psychonosol′ogy, the branch of medical science that treats of mental diseases; Psychopan′nychism, the theory that at death the soul falls asleep till the resurrection; Psychopan′nychist; Psychopar′esis, mental weakness; Psy′chopath, a morally irresponsible person; Psychop′athist, an alienist; Psychop′athy, derangement of mental functions.—adj. Psy′cho-phys′ical.—ns. Psy′cho-phys′icist; Psy′cho-physiol′ogy, Psy′cho-phys′ics, the knowledge of the manifold correspondences of the most intimate and exact kind that exist between states and changes of consciousness on the one hand, and states and changes of brain on the other—the concomitance being apparently complete as respects complexity, intensity, and time-order; Psy′choplasm, the physical basis of consciousness; Psy′chopomp, Hermes, the guide of spirits to the other world; Psychō′sis, mental condition: a change in the field of consciousness: any mental disorder; Psychostā′sia, the weighing of souls; Psy′cho-stat′ics, the theory of the conditions of the phenomena of mind; Psychothē′ism, the doctrine that God is pure spirit; Psychotherapeu′tics, Psychother′apy, the art of curing mental disease.—Psychical research, inquiring into alleged phenomena, apparently implying a connection with another world; Psychic force, a power not physical or mechanical, supposed to cause certain so-called spiritualistic phenomena. [L. psychicus—Gr. psychikos—psychē, the soul—psychēin, to breathe.]