psychic

sustantivo

1. 1

   A person who possesses, or appears to possess, extra-sensory abilities such as clairvoyance, precognition, and telepathy, or who appears to be susceptible to paranormal or supernatural influences.

2. 2

   A person who supposedly contacts the dead; a medium.

3. 3

   In gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man the second type; a person focused on intellectual reality (the other two being hylic and pneumatic).

adjetivo

1. 1

   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.

   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.

2. 2

   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 […]

   Merely by comprehending this, the lack of support that black feminists have for being black feminists, white women might be able to give at least psychic and preferably practical support to black women who they know and not assume that it means the same thing for us to be feminists and lesbians as it does for them to be feminists and lesbians.

Formas

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psychics

comparativo

more psychic

superlativo

most psychic