psychically

[ sahy-kik-lee ]

adverb

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.
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.

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.

Origin of psychically

We would talk about the connection between the cosmic, the psychic, the ethereal and the spiritual a lot.
Pauline Anna Strom’s posthumous album cements her legacy as an electronic music visionary | Jonathan Williger | February 19, 2021 | 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.
During a pandemic, the medical profession turns to Greek tragedy — to heal | Peter Marks | November 20, 2020 | Washington Post
Derrickson recalls one psychic asking the toy questions, then silently reflecting before recommending adoption.
Someone out there wants to adopt your creepy toys. There’s a matchmaker for that. | Maureen O'Hagan | October 29, 2020 | Washington Post
Remarque laments a generation where even the survivors are psychically mangled.
David's Book Club: Storm of Steel | David Frum | July 18, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
Gingrich seemed to just stop fighting, beaten not only on points, but psychically.
Newt's Very Bad Night | David Frum | January 27, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST

Yet Couric's tar-and-feathering may have been psychically useful to her.
Palin vs. The Power Girls | Tina Brown | October 5, 2008 | THE DAILY BEAST
psychically determined erections may likewise occur, although the physical development is by no means far advanced.
The Sexual Life of the Child | Albert Moll
Every pulse of consciousness is psychically compounded of will, feeling, and thought.
The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion | James H. Leuba
Honora asked one evening when Kate had been telling a tale of psychically sinister import.
The Precipice | Elia Wilkinson Peattie
Women have suffered more, psychically; because this way lay their nature and their human lot.
Feminism and Sex-Extinction | Arabella Kenealy
At last she effects it by impressing the mind of a living woman who carries out the suggestion psychically given.
The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction | Dorothy Scarborough

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