psychically

[ sahy-kik-lee ]

adverb

1. in a way that relates to the human soul or mind, or to mental phenomena; psychologically:

   I refuse to be psychically and emotionally manipulated by Hollywood and its manufactured, clichéd movie characters.

   Any change in the environment influences us both physically and psychically.

2. in a way that relates to phenomena outside natural or scientific knowledge; spiritually:

   Neptune is imaginative and dreamy, so when it shows up in a conjunction with the moon, it can make an individual psychically in tune with others.

3. by means of or in a way that relates to nonphysical or supernatural influences, forces, or powers:

   I'd love to be able to psychically find objects I misplace, or foresee negative events in my future to avoid.

Other Words From

• non·psy·chi·cal·ly adverb
• un·psy·chi·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of psychically¹

psychical ( def ) + -ly

Example Sentences

We would talk about the connection between the cosmic, the psychic, the ethereal and the spiritual a lot.

From Washington Post

In that and the public Zoom events that have followed, he’s identified a psychic exhaustion in health-care-industry audiences — and anger at having to justify attention to the pandemic.

From Washington Post

Derrickson recalls one psychic asking the toy questions, then silently reflecting before recommending adoption.

From Washington Post

Remarque laments a generation where even the survivors are psychically mangled.

From The Daily Beast

Gingrich seemed to just stop fighting, beaten not only on points, but psychically.

From The Daily Beast

Yet Couric's tar-and-feathering may have been psychically useful to her.

From The Daily Beast

Psychically determined erections may likewise occur, although the physical development is by no means far advanced.

From Project Gutenberg

Every pulse of consciousness is psychically compounded of will, feeling, and thought.

From Project Gutenberg

Honora asked one evening when Kate had been telling a tale of psychically sinister import.

From Project Gutenberg

Women have suffered more, psychically; because this way lay their nature and their human lot.

From Project Gutenberg

At last she effects it by impressing the mind of a living woman who carries out the suggestion psychically given.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• intellectually
• psychologically