psychological
Americanadjective
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of or relating to psychology.
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pertaining to the mind or to mental phenomena as the subject matter of psychology.
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of, pertaining to, dealing with, or affecting the mind, especially as a function of awareness, feeling, or motivation.
psychological play;
psychological effect.
adjective
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of or relating to psychology
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of or relating to the mind or mental activity
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having no real or objective basis; arising in the mind
his backaches are all psychological
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affecting the mind
Other Word Forms
- nonpsychologic adjective
- nonpsychological adjective
- prepsychological adjective
- pseudopsychological adjective
- psychologically adverb
- semipsychologic adjective
- semipsychological adjective
- unpsychological adjective
Etymology
Origin of psychological
First recorded in 1785–95; psycholog(y) + -ical
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Example Sentences
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"We decided to work inside the camp to offer the girls some psychological relief from the war", Ayub told AFP.
From Barron's
So far 27 Kenyans who had been fighting in Russia have been repatriated, he said, with authorities providing psychological care to address their trauma and "de-radicalise" them.
From BBC
Devi says the psychological impact of being told you have Alzheimer’s when you don’t is profound.
The day after the SEC filed suit, Lopez posted on X: “Never doom. No matter how horrible the situation, don’t ever think you’re doomed. Unless you are dead, all defeat is psychological.”
After a few days’ rest at his brigade’s psychological support center, he returned to the front.
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