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Psychic

Definition: Psychic

Psychic

Adjective

1. Pertaining to forces or mental processes outside the possibilities defined by natural or scientific laws; "psychic reader"; "psychical research".

2. Affecting or influenced by the human mind; "psychic energy"; "psychic trauma".

3. Outside the sphere of physical science; "psychic phenomena".

Noun

1. A person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "psychic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references)


Specialty Definition: Psychic

DomainDefinition

Health

Pertaining to the psyche or to the mind; mental. (references)

Medicine

Pertaining to a class of alleged phenomena belonging to that branche of learning known as parapsychology. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Psychic

Synonym: psychical (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Psychic

English words defined with "psychic": cathexis, chargelibidinal energynonconsciouspsychicallysubconscious, subconscious mindunconscious, unconscious mind. (references)
Specialty definitions using "psychic": Flajani's diseaseGraves disease, Graves's diseaseMarch's diseaseNeuroleptanalgesia, neurosesParry disease, Parry's diseaseSeizures, Stokes's disease. (references)
Etymologies containing "psychic": Panpsychism. (references)

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Modern Usage: Psychic

DomainUsage

Screenplays

C'mon, what kind of psychic are you? (The Dead Zone; writing credit: Aleksandar Djordjevic)

No respected psychic will come on this show. (Ghostbusters II; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.)

I'm smart, not psychic. (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette)

I mean, it's note like you're a slacker type, but -- Oh, oh! When I had psychic power I heard my mom think that you were like a stevedore during sex. Do you want me to continue? (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

The blind are reputed to possess sensitivities compensating for their lack of sight, even to the point of developing paranormal psychic powers. (O Brother, Where Art Thou?; writing credit: Ethan Coen)

Lyrics

Psychic spies from China (Californication; performing artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers)

Clever

I almost had a psychic girlfriend, but she left me before we met. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

The Psychic (1968)

Darth Vader's Psychic Hotline (2002)

Psychic Television (1999)

Kenny Kingston Psychic Hotline (1995)

Psychic Detectives (1992)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Psychic

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Psychic Grid: How We Create the World We Know (reference)

  • One Last Time: A Psychic Medium Speaks to Those We Have Loved and Lost (reference)

  • May the Angels Be With You: A Psychic Helps You Find Your Spirit Guides and Your True Purpose (reference)

  • Past Lives, Future Healing: A Psychic Reveals the Secrets to Good Health and Great Relationships (reference)

  • Psychic Development for Beginners: An Easy Guide to Releasing and Developing Your Psychic Abilities (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Psychic

Illustrations:
Psychic

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Photo Album: Psychic

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The spirit Indian appeared when the psychic photographer, Robert Chaney, took a picture of the stone Indian. Credit: Library of Congress.

Houdini exposes psychic fraud. Credit: Library of Congress.

That brilliant psychic star, Newmann the Great. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Psychic

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Clinical manifestations include abnormal motor, sensory and psychic phenomena. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Psychic

"Psychic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.47% of the time. "Psychic" is used about 434 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)97.47%42313,476
Noun (proper)1.38%6143,867
Noun (singular)0.92%4175,879
Noun (common)0.23%1339,140
                    Total100.00%434N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Psychic

Expressions using "psychic": cortical psychic blindness LeShan psychic training psychic adviser psychic blindness psychic communication Psychic dentistry psychic dependence psychic energy Psychic healing psychic income Psychic Magic psychic phenomena psychic phenomenon psychic shock Psychic surgery. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "psychic": Psychic-intuitive, psychic-type.

Ending with "psychic": non-psychic, super-psychic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Psychic

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

psychic

3,635

free online psychic reading

119

psychic reading

1,647

psychic prediction

105

free psychic reading

1,349

psychic test

102

accurate psychic reading

592

accurate psychic

97

choosing psychic

490

psychic healing

73

free psychic

449

free online psychic

73

psychic medium

373

free psychic chat

68

pet psychic

346

phone psychic

61

psychic line

330

cold fortune gypsy psychic reader reading scam teller

61

online psychic reading

286

2003 prediction psychic

59

psychic chat online

284

psychic fair

59

psychic advice

284

intuitive psychic

57

live psychic reading

266

psychic tv

54

clairvoyant psychic reading

212

psychic vampire

51

online psychic

193

psychic development

47

psychic ability

169

psychic job

46

psychic reader

155

psychic sylvia brown

40

psychic chat

151

psychic employment

39

psychic clairvoyant

129

psychic force

37

psychic power

120

psychic chat rooms

37
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Psychic

Language Translations for "psychic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

psikik (mental, psychical), telepatik (psychical, telepathic), mendor (intellective, intellectual, mental, psychical). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏نفسي (myself, psychological, psychosomatic, self). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

със способности на медиум, медиум (medium), психически (psychical), душевен (internal, mental, psychical). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

精神 (mental, spirit, spirits, spiritual). (various references)

   

Czech

  

psychický (psychical), duševní (mental). (various references)

   

Danish

  

psykisk (phychic). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

psychisch (emotional, mental). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

psika. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پدیده روحی , واسطه (Gobetween, Intermediate, Medium, Middleman), ذهنی (Intellectual, Intrinsic, Subjective), روحی (Inner, Intrinsic, Mental, Numinous, Spiritual), روانی (Bolubility, Flow, Freedom, Mental, Versatility). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

psyykkinen (mental), sielullinen (mental). (various references)

   

French

  

psychique (psychical, psychological). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

psychysk. (various references)

   

German

  

psychisch (emotional, psychical, psychological, psychologically), seelisch (emotional, mental, psychological, psychologically, spiritual). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μέντιουμ (medium, spirit rapper), ψυχικόσ (mental, spiritual). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

פסיכי, פשי (cordial, mental, psychological, spiritual). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

pszichikai (psychical), médium, lelki (distemper, exaltation, ghostly, inward, pneumatic, psychical, spiritual, to read the riot act to sy). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

waskita (clairvoyant). (various references)

   

Italian

  

psichico (mental, psychical). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

超能力 (ESP, psi, psychic ability), 心霊現象 (psychic phenomenon), 心霊手" (psychic surgery). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

し"れい'"しょう (psychic phenomenon), し"れいてじゅつ (psychic surgery), ちょうのうりょく (ESP, psi, psychic ability). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

. (various references)

   

Manx

  

sheekagh (psychical), quaaie (psychical, queer, strange), quaagh (alien, aloof, foreign, ghostly, odd, peculiar, psychical, quaint, strange, supernatural, uncanny, weird). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ychicpsay

   

Portuguese

  

psíquico (psychical). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

psihologie (psychology), psihic (head, mental). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

обладающий телепатией, духовный (clerical, clerkly, ecclesiastical, ghostly, inward, moral, noetic, otherworldly, sacred, spiritual, unworldly). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

psihički (psychical), spiritistički (psychical). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

psíquico (mental, psychical). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

psykisk (psychical, psychological, psycological). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

psişik (psychical), parapsikolojik, ruhsal (inner, mental, psychical, psychologic, psychological, spiritual), ruhani (disembodied, ethereal, ghostlike, ghostly, hiero-, immaterial, spiritual, unworldly), medyum (medium, psychic adviser). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

медіум, психічний (mental, psychical), духовний (clerical, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical, ghostly, inward, sacred, spiritual, unworldly), душевний (internal, psychical). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

b đ"ng (pythoness, sibyl, sybil), ông đ"ng (sufi). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Psychic

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Greek700 BCE-300 CE

psykhikos. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Psychic

Derivations

Words beginning with "psychic": psychical, psychically, psychics. (additional references)

Words ending with "psychic": interpsychic, intrapsychic. (additional references)

Words containing "psychic": intrapsychically. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Psychic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aptychi, boychik, phychic, pshycic, Psimhis, psychi, psychia, psychico, psychie, psychil, psychoic, psychy, psycic, psyhic, Psykik, psysic, pyschic. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Psychic"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "psychic" (pronounced sī"kik)
3-k i kanarchic.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Psychic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-h-i-p-s-y"

-1 letter: physic, scyphi.

-2 letters: chics, chips, psych, spicy.

-3 letters: chic, chip, chis, hips, hyps, ichs, phis, pics, pish, pyic, ship, spic, syph, yips.

-4 letters: chi, cis, hic, hip, his, hyp, ich, icy, phi, pic, pis, psi, shy, sic, sip, spy, yip.

-5 letters: hi, is, pi, sh, si.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-h-i-p-s-y"
 

+1 letter: psychics.

 

+2 letters: psychical, psychotic.

 

+3 letters: psychotics.

 

+4 letters: hygroscopic, psychedelic, psychiatric, psychically, psychogenic, psychologic, sycophantic.

 

+5 letters: cryptorchids, cryptorchism, hypercritics, hypocoristic, hypocycloids, interpsychic, intrapsychic, microphysics, nonpsychotic, phenocrystic, phycocyanins, physiocratic, polytechnics, psychedelics, psychoactive, psychometric, psychopathic, psychosocial, psychotropic, pyrotechnics, sycophancies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Translations: Ancient
14. Derivations
15. Rhymes
16. Anagrams
17. Bibliography


  

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