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Definition: Psychological |
PsychologicalAdjective1. Mental or emotional as opposed to physical in nature; "give psychological support"; "psychological warfare". 2. Of or relating to or determined by psychology; "psychological theories". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "psychological" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| PSA | English | Psychological Stress Analyzer | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Intellect | Adjective: intellectual, mental, rational, subjective, metaphysical, nooscopic, spiritual; ghostly; psychical, psychological; cerebral; animastic; brainy; hyperphysical, superphysical; subconscious, subliminal. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Psychological |
| English words defined with "psychological": psychological disorder, psychological warfare. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "psychological": Models, Psychological ♦ psychological consolidation activities, psychological operations, Psychological Phenomena and Processes, psychological situation, psychological test, psychological theme, Psychological Theory ♦ SALES AGENT, PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | That's all you guys do good! It's either a leg thing, a spiritual thing, a psychological thing, or a heart attack! (Major League II; writing credit: David S. Ward; R.J. Stewart) it's either a leg thing or a spiritual thing, or a psychological thing, or a heart attack. (Major League II; writing credit: David S. Ward; R.J. Stewart) It's psychological. (Heart Condition; writing credit: James D. Parriott) He's simply impenetrable to psychological testing. (Red Dragon; writing credit: Ted Tally) | |
Clever | Successful teachers are effective in spite of the psychological theories they suffer under. (references; author: Educational Proverb) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Psychological Testing (1962) Primitive Man: A Psychological Comedy Founded on Darwin's Theory of the Genesis of Man (1913) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | White woman from neck to waist wearing a bra, indicating breast reconstruction post mastectomy. Surgery enables women to have a better self image, looking good in clothes, and facilitating psychological readjustment. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Educational Proverb | Successful teachers are effective in spite of the psychological theories they suffer under. |
Oscar Wilde | He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | Segregation with the sanction of law, therefore, has a tendency to [retard] the educational and mental development of negro children and to deprive them of some of the benefits they would receive in a racial[ly] integrated school system." Whatever may have been the extent of psychological knowledge at the time of Plessy v. Ferguson, this finding is amply supported by modern authority. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Emotional and psychological support is important. (references) | |
Obesity creates an enormous psychological burden. (references) | ||
This also seems to be true for psychological distress. (references) | ||
Business | They too have a clear and present need for psychological counseling. (references) | |
Internet distribution will evolve, but there are legal obstacles and psychological barriers to be faced. (references) | ||
Medications for sleeping disorders, psychological disorders and for certain diseases (e.g., tuberculosis and epilepsy) cannot be advertised publicly. (references) | ||
Children | Maldives | Children's rights are incorporated into law, which specifically protects them from both physical and psychological abuse, including abuse at the hands of teachers or parents. (references) |
Hong Kong | In the first 6 months of the year, child abuse cases newly registered with the Social Welfare Department totaled 295, a 16 percent increase over the same period in 2000: 57 percent involved physical abuse, 27 percent sexual abuse, and the rest were classified as gross negligence, multiple abuse or psychological abuse. (references) | |
Iraq | Senior military officers who supervised the course noted that the children held up under the "physical and psychological strain" of training that lasted for as long as 14 hours each day. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Belarus | The author of the documentary asserted that "Catholicism is a threat to the very existence of the Belarusian nationality, its psychological health and security" and urged the Government to take steps to protect Orthodoxy. (references) |
Laos | In some cases, prisoners were handcuffed, detained in leg chains and stocks, and subjected to psychological pressure. (references) | |
France | Associations, which are recognized as public utilities that defend or aid an individual or a collective entity against a person or organization that is characterized as having the goal or the effect of creating or exploiting a psychological or physical dependence, have standing in such judicial proceedings. (references) | |
Economic History | Iran | Farmers and peasants received a psychological boost from the attention given them by the Islamic regime but appear to be hardly better off in economic terms. (references) |
Eritrea | As a result, they received higher compensation, more intensive training, and more psychological counseling than the first group. (references) | |
Slovak Rep | The unemployment rate as a share of registered unemployed of the total workforce eased to 18.49 percent in May 2001, a significant improvement compared with 20.8 percent in January, the highest rate since the fall of communism in 1989. The total number of registered jobless people broke after six months the psychological level of 500,000, falling to 498,655 as of May 31. The unemployment rate measured as a share of the workforce unemployed and available for work (so called disposable rate), was 17.49 percent, down from 19.79 percent in January. (references) | |
Human Rights | Costa Rica | As of August 2000, the Ombudsman's office had received two complaints of physical abuse of prisoners by guards, and four complaints of psychological abuse; compared with six complaints of physical abuse and six complaints of psychological abuse in all of 1999. The Ombudsman's office investigates complaints and refers serious cases of abuse to the public prosecutor. (references) |
Djibouti | In 1999 an unidentified citizen in conjunction with the ARHRD presented a claim in a French court against President Guelleh and former President Gouled, alleging that he had been detained arbitrarily and tortured, and had suffered physical and psychological damage as a result. (references) | |
Cuba | Prison guards and state security officials subjected human rights and prodemocracy activists to threats of physical violence, to systematic psychological intimidation, and to detention or imprisonment in cells with common and violent criminals, sexually aggressive inmates, or state security agents posing as prisoners. (references) | |
Political Economy | Zimbabwe | At least 31 people were killed, thousands of villagers were left homeless, and many more suffered lasting psychological damage. (references) |
Trade | Japan | One of the first features of the Big Bang, lifting of restrictions on individual investment in certain types of foreign currency assets, was initiated in April, 1998. While the actual long term market impact of this liberalization still remains to be seen, the psychological impact in raising awareness of the potential effects of deregulation are now apparent. (references) |
Travel | Qatar | Rumaillah Hospital handles geriatrics, rehabilitation and cosmetic surgery and provides basic treatment for psychological diseases. (references) |
Women | Libya | Some nomadic tribes located in remote areas still practice female genital mutilation (FGM) on young girls, a procedure that is condemned widely by international health experts as damaging to both physical and psychological health. (references) |
Kyrgyz Republic | Interior Ministry statistics indicated that during the year there were approximately 2,600 crimes of all types against women, but many crimes against women are not reported due to psychological pressures, cultural traditions, and apathy by law enforcement officials. (references) | |
Ecuador | The Law Against Violence Affecting Women and Children criminalized spousal abuse, including physical, sexual, and psychological abuse; created family courts; and reformed the Penal Code to give courts the power to remove an abusive spouse from the home. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Finland | Legal council is provided to victims as well as medical care and psychological counseling. (references) |
Netherlands | During this period, victims receive legal, financial, and psychological assistance. (references) | |
Belarus | Crisis centers established by some NGO's do provide psychological assistance to victims of violence. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Heather Mills McCartney | Those who survive endure a lifetime of physical, psychological, and economic hardship. And the toll on the community is devastating. |
Patty Hearst | You know, that's really hard to say because they're a very close family. It depends. I think they ought to have definitely some kind of psychological help for her. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Inflation results from psychological as well as economic conditions. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | My Administration was able to launch a long sought after psychological readjustment and outreach program, unprecedented in its popularity, sensitivity and success. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Psychological" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.39% of the time. "Psychological" is used about 2,782 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.39% | 2,765 | 3,336 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.57% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (common) | 0.04% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,782 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "psychological": battlefield psychological activities ♦ Psychological and Paramilitary ♦ Psychological conditions and disorders ♦ psychological consolidation activities ♦ psychological dependence ♦ psychological disorder ♦ Psychological disturbances ♦ psychological fatigue ♦ psychological feature ♦ psychological media ♦ psychological medicine ♦ psychological moment ♦ psychological operations ♦ psychological operations approach ♦ Psychological Phenomena and Processes ♦ psychological reeducation ♦ psychological science ♦ psychological situation ♦ psychological state ♦ Psychological Techniques ♦ psychological test ♦ Psychological Tests ♦ psychological theme ♦ Psychological Theory ♦ psychological warfare ♦ strategic psychological activities ♦ SuperShape Psychological Conditioning System ♦ the psychological moment. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "psychological": psychological-cum-biological, psychological-el, psychological-social. | |
Ending with "psychological": medico-psychological, non-psychological, social-psychological, socio-psychological. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "psychological"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | psikologjik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نفسي (myself, psychic, psychosomatic, self), نفساني, حرب نفسية, خاص بالتحليل النفسي (analytical), أحيائي نفسي خاص بعلم الأحياء. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | психологичен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 心理 (mental). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | psychologický. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | psykologisk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | psychologisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | psikologa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | psykologinen, sielutieteellinen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | psychologique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | psychologischen, psychologisch (psychologic, psychologically). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ψυχαναλυτικόσ, ψυχολογικόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פסיכולו'י, פשי (cordial, mental, psychic, spiritual). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pszichológiai, lélektani. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | psikologi, kejiwaan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | psicologico (psychologic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | サイクロイド歯車 (cyclocytidine, cycloidal gear teeth, cyclometer, cyclon, cyclosporine, cyclotron, psychedelic, psycho, psychoanalysis, psychodrama, psychogalvanometer, psychokinesis, psychology, psychosomatics, psychotherapist, psychotherapy, Saigon), 心的 (mental, physical), 心理的 (mental), 心理学的 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | し"りがくてき, し"りてき (mental), し"てき (mental, physical), サイコロジカル . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 심리학 (Psychology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | shicklaagagh (psychologist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ychologicalpsay psicológico. (various references) ultima clipã (psychological moment), moment psihologic (psychological moment). (various references) психологический. (various references) psihološki. (various references) psicológico (psychologic). (various references) psykologisk, psykisk (psychic, psychical, psycological). (various references) psikolojik (psychologic), ruhsal (inner, mental, psychic, psychical, psychologic, spiritual), ruhbilimsel (psychologic). (various references) психологічний (psychologic). (various references) seicolegol. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "psychological": psychologically. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "psychological": metapsychological, neuropsychological, nonpsychological, parapsychological, sociopsychological. (additional references) | |
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"Psychological" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pshycological, psuchological, psycholosical, psycological, psyhcological, pyschological. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "psychological" (pronounced sī'kulÄ"jikul) |
| 9 | -k u l Ä" j i k u l | ecological, gynecological, pharmacological, toxicological. |
| 8 | -u l Ä" j i k u l | archaeological, archeological, astrological, biological, biotechnological, chronological, dermatological, epidemiological, eschatological, geological, ideological, immunological, methodological, morphological, mythological, neurological, ontological, pathological, phonological, physiological, radiological, sociological, technological, theological, virological. |
| 7 | -l Ä" j i k u l | illogical, logical, zoological. |
| 6 | -Ä" j i k u l | pedagogical. |
| 5 | -j i k u l | liturgical, magical, metallurgical, nonsurgical, ornithological, serological, strategical, surgical, teleological. |
| 4 | -i k u l | acoustical, alphabetical, analytical, antithetical, apolitical, astronautical, astronomical, asymmetrical, atypical, autobiographical, bicycle, biographical, biomedical, botanical, categorical, cervical, classical, comical, conical, critical, cubicle, cyclical, cylindrical, cynical, diabolical, dialectical, ecclesiastical, economical, ecumenical, egotistical, electrical, electrochemical, electromechanical, elliptical, empirical, encyclical, ethical, ethnical, evangelical, fanatical, galenical, geographical, geometrical, geopolitical, graphical, helical, heretical, historical, hypercritical, hypocritical, hysterical, icicle, identical, inimical, ironical, lackadaisical, lexical, logistical, lyrical, mathematical, mechanical, metaphorical, metaphysical, metrical, musical, mystical, neoclassical, nonelectrical, nonpolitical, nonsensical, nontechnical, optical, paradoxical, periodical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, philosophical, physical, popsicle, preclinical, problematical, prototypical, psychical, puritanical, rabbinical, rhetorical, sabbatical, semiclassical, semicylindrical, semitropical, spherical, statistical, stereotypical, symmetrical, tactical, technical, testicle, theatrical, theoretical, topical, tricycle, tropical, typographical, tyrannical, umbilical, uncritical, uneconomical, unethical, untypical, vehicle, vertical, viatical, whimsical. |
| 3 | -k u l | aeronautical, agrochemical, allegorical, anarchical, anatomical, ankle, anthropological, article, barnacle, biblical, bifocal, biochemical, brickle, buckle, cackle, chemical, Chronicle, chuckle, circle, clavicle, clerical, clinical, commonsensical, coracle, cortical, crackle, cuticle, cycle, debacle, diacritical, domical, ducal, encircle, epochal, equivocal, etymological, farcical, fecal, fickle, fiscal, focal, follicle, freckle, geophysical, gonococcal, grackle, grammatical, granduncle, hackle, heckle, heterocercal, hierarchical, honeysuckle, Huckle, hypothetical, impractical, jackal, knuckle, local, maniacal, matriarchal, medical, meikle, meteorological, methodical, Mickle, miracle, monocle, motorcycle, muckle, mythical, nautical, nickel, Nickle, Nicol, numerical, obstacle, Oracle, oratorical, particle, patriarchal, photochemical, pickle, pinnacle, polemical, political, pontifical, practical, pumpernickel, quizzical, radical, ramshackle, rankle, rascal, receptacle, reciprocal, recycle, ruckle, runkle, satirical, shackle, shekel, sickle, skeptical, Sokol, sparkle, speckle, spectacle, sprinkle, stickle, suckle, tabernacle, tackle, tentacle, tickle, tinkle, trickle, twinkle, typical, uncle, unequivocal, unicycle, unshackle, vocal, Winkle, wrinkle. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-g-h-i-l-l-o-o-p-s-y" | |
-1 letter: phycological. | |
-2 letters: psychologic. | |
-3 letters: alcoholics, choplogics. | |
-4 letters: alcoholic, choplogic, haplology, philology, psychical. | |
-5 letters: alcohols, apiology, glycolic, physical, picachos, piccolos, socially. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-g-h-i-l-l-o-o-p-s-y" | |
+2 letters: psychologically. | |
+3 letters: ecophysiological, nonpsychological, psychobiological. | |
+4 letters: metapsychological, parapsychological, phytosociological. | |
+5 letters: neuropsychological, oscillographically, psychopathological, sociopsychological. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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