psychic energy
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of psychic energy
First recorded in 1920–25
Example Sentences
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We’ll have robot cars, robocops, terminators and a fully functioning Skynet that grades social status from Instagram likes—unless we’re all entombed Matrix-like in pods wearing Neurolinks to capture our psychic energy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026
Rather, it’s that I’ve decided that this time around, I will not exert my own psychic energy toward wondering what is bothering him and mistaking that for anything meaningful.
From Slate • Feb. 9, 2025
Army’s attempts to harness psychic energy to kill the animals by glaring intently at them.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 7, 2023
I really do believe that if you put enough love and psychic energy into a character, they do start to generate their own destiny.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2023
The role of the capitalist in the dream fabrication is always played by the unconscious wish; it dispenses the psychic energy for dream-building.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund
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