psychic
Collocations
3ADJ.
dubious, emotional, escaped, fair
VERB + PSYCHIC
believe, claims, heard
PSYCHIC + NOUN
abilities, detective, dwarf, environment, friend, person
Definitions
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 influences.
A person who supposedly contacts the dead; a medium.
In gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man the second type; a person focused on intellectual reality (the other two being hylic and pneumatic).
adj
Relating to or having the abilities of a psychic.
You must be psychic—I was just about to say that.
She is a psychic person—she hears messages from beyond.
Relating to the psyche or mind, or to mental activity in general.
In the following pages I shall demonstrate that there is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and that on the application of this technique every dream will reveal itself as a psychological structure, full of significance, and one which may be assigned to a specific place in the psychic activities of the waking state.
A pathological process called 'psychiatrosis' may well be found, by the same methods, to be a delineable entity, with somatic correlates, and psychic mechanisms […]
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6You must be psychic—I was just about to say that.
WiktionaryShe is a psychic person—she hears messages from beyond.
WiktionaryHaving exhausted the sporting adventures of this terrestrial globe, he is now turning to those of the dim, dark and dubious regions of psychic research.
WiktionaryHe should be a psychic detective.
Tatoeba · #777858Maybe in a different universe, the emotional and psychic environment is even different from ours.
Tatoeba · #1466049Mary is a psychic.
Tatoeba · #1492141