Psychic

Quick meaning: Psychic is a noun meaning (parapsychology) A person who supposedly contacts the dead; a medium.

Meaning

(parapsychology) A person who supposedly contacts the dead; a medium.

More Meanings

1. Relating to or having the abilities of a psychic.
2. Relating to the psyche or mind, or to mental activity in general.
3. 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.
4. (Gnosticism) In gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man the second type; a person focused on intellectual reality (the other two being hylic and pneumatic).

Example Sentences

You must be psychic—I was just about to say that.

She is a psychic person—she hears messages from beyond.

Having exhausted the sporting adventures of this terrestrial globe, he is now turning to those of the dim, dark and dubious regions of psychic research.

A pathological process called 'psychiatrosis' may well be found, by the same methods, to be a delineable entity, with somatic correlates, and psychic mechanisms […]

Word Forms

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Synonyms for psychic

Depending on context, synonyms include mental, paranormal, psychical.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include paranormal, psychical, mental, telepathic, clairvoyant, wizard.

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