psychical
adj/ˈsʌɪkɪk(ə)l/UK
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ψυχικός (psukhikós) + -al. By surface analysis, psyche + -ical.
Definitions
Performed by or pertaining to the psyche (the mind, spirit, or both)
Performed by or pertaining to the psyche (the mind, spirit, or both): mental, psychic.
- Who could say where the fleshly impulse ceased, or the psychical impulse began?
- Even more perhaps than other kinds of genius, religious leaders have been subject to abnormal psychical visitations. Invariably they have been creatures of exalted emotional sensibility.
Pertaining to the animal nature of man, as opposed to the spirit.
Outside the realm of the physical
Outside the realm of the physical; supernatural, psychic.
The neighborhood
- antonymphysical
- neighborpsychic
- neighborpsychological
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for psychical. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA