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Definition of psychic in English: psychicadjective ˈsʌɪkɪkˈsaɪkɪk 1Relating to or denoting faculties or phenomena that are apparently inexplicable by natural laws, especially involving telepathy or clairvoyance. 通灵的,超自然的 通灵能力。 Example sentencesExamples - Even from a young age, I have always believed in the possibility of the paranormal, and of psychic powers.
- The police have much to learn about the relative value of psychic phenomena in criminal investigations.
- Parapsychology has distinguished itself by objective study of psychic phenomena.
- Clairvoyance is an alleged psychic ability to see things beyond the range of the power of vision.
- Scientists are rarely trained as magicians and have often been conned by demonstrators of psychic phenomena.
- A number of your films contain the theme or subject of psychic phenomena as well as witchcraft and magic or what you might term occult subjects.
- Despite the amazing array of physical and psychic phenomenon Julia struggled to acknowledge that it was a reality, as she comments.
- The study of psychic phenomena dictated the need to define the concept of the information-energy field.
- Apparently not even psychic powers help rivalrous siblings connect with each other in adulthood.
- Religious reasoning explains in part why this author postulates we should not induce nor develop psychic phenomena.
- Precognition falls under the category of psychic phenomena, which is a subset of the paranormal.
- I had numerous talks with my father about psychic phenomena, the nature of the Divine, and other philosophical subjects.
- He also reported cases that suggest that experiences interpreted as ESP or other types of psychic phenomena can have the same effects.
- There are many ideas and traditions about psychic phenomena that have been regarded as superstitions.
- Any other form of remote viewing can best be termed, he says, as a psychic experience or clairvoyance.
- David has recently written a book on psychic phenomena from the standpoint of suspicious skeptic of the supernatural.
- I have only recently begun to explore my psychic side, but have been strong in the areas of psychic dreams and clairvoyance.
- She was going to rely on the psychic link that they appeared to have at times; the one they were discussing earlier when Colt had kissed her for the first time.
- Peter left the session disappointed with my unwillingness to believe in the psychic explanations for phenomena that he experiences.
- When a person has a traumatic experience it produces traumatic psychic energy.
Synonyms supernatural, paranormal, other-worldly, supernormal, preternatural, metaphysical, extrasensory, transcendental, magic, magical, mystical, mystic, occult rare necromantic clairvoyant, telepathic, telekinetic, spiritualistic, with second sight, with a sixth sense - 1.1 Appearing or considered to have powers of telepathy or clairvoyance.
(人)有心灵感应的 I could sense it—I must be psychic 我能感觉到——我一定有心灵感应。 Example sentencesExamples - From there, several different people entered and exited the room, all claiming to be psychic and telepathic and telekinetic amongst other things.
- If it's an experiment, you might want to start by inviting people to read your mind - or whatever - and establish a success rate among a few individuals who appear to be psychic enough to get in.
- After this experience Dannion became quite psychic, which was witnessed by others.
- He's psychic, reading people's minds and believing he's communicating with the dead.
- There are thousands of people every day thinking they must be psychic. But, did you know that being psychic is more than giving a reading?
- I mean, she must be psychic, right? How can she know this about me? How could she know about that girl/guy that broke my heart if she's not psychic?
Synonyms non-material, inner, psychical, psychological
2Relating to the soul or mind. 灵魂的,精神的,心理的 he dulled his psychic pain with gin 他借酒消愁。 Example sentencesExamples - According to the old syllabus for our sentimental education, psychic pain is part of the material that must be mastered for human growth to take place.
- In the West, the target of cruelty centuries ago shifted from the body to the soul, to psychic pain - but the morality behind the practice remains.
- On the other hand, for all the psychic pain he pours into his songs, Johnston is a generous spirit.
- Fear, anger, psychic pain, and sadness are some of the emotional issues we probably stuffed down as kids.
- Long, long ago these deities had consumed their worshippers unto extinction for the psychic sustenance their dying souls provided.
Synonyms emotional, spiritual, inner cognitive, psychological, intellectual, mental, psychiatric, psychogenic rare psychical, mindly, phrenic 3Bridge Denoting a bid that deliberately misrepresents the bidder's hand, in order to mislead the opponents. 〔桥牌〕(误导对方的)心理叫牌
noun ˈsʌɪkɪkˈsaɪkɪk 1A person considered or claiming to have psychic powers; a medium. 通灵的人,巫师;灵物 pier-end palmists and fake psychics Example sentencesExamples - Or think of the pet psychic who claims she can read your dog's mind by looking at a photo of the dog.
- It's reasonable to suppose that good psychics, like good hitters in baseball, succeed only a modest fraction of the time.
- Also, because readings involve energy flow and transfer between two people, not all psychics are compatible with all clients.
- He categorized the patterns as engineers, psychics, healers, millionaires, and remote viewers.
- I have had a few very horrible experiences with psychics where they manipulated me by fear and then took my money.
- These and other techniques help convince the credulous that pet psychics have telepathic or clairvoyant or other powers.
- Psychics aren't overly worried about other psychics reading their minds and revealing their innermost secrets to the world.
- White light protection is a method used by many spiritualists and psychics.
- Phony faith healers, psychics, channelers, televangelist miracle workers, etc., are as abundant as ever.
- On March 3rd, the Danish National Radio had a half-hour show about police use of psychics.
- It's possible to believe in psychics, homeopathy, God, dowsing, reincarnation and probably much else besides.
- Did the public or the press learn to be more skeptical of the claims of alleged psychics?
- Selection bias partly explains why there are so many satisfied customers who go to psychics, tarot card readers, palmists, and faith healers.
- The third woman on his list, Carmen, is a psychic who claims to communicate with animals.
- She's a Tarot reader, a psychic in training, a crystal healer and an amateur witch.
- No psychic, despite their claims, has ever helped the police solve a crime.
- This is true of mediums / psychics and clairvoyants, gifted people who can see beyond and make contact with the other world.
- Finally, some cops use psychics, or even pretend to be psychic, to psych out superstitious suspects.
- Alan Vaughan was a psychic who claimed, among other wonders, to have prophetic dreams.
- No psychic has ever demonstrated mediumship under laboratory conditions.
Synonyms clairvoyant, fortune teller, prophet, seer, soothsayer, forecaster of the future, crystal gazer, astrologer, prognosticator, prophesier, oracle, augur, sibyl, Cassandra, mind reader, palmist, palm reader, chiromancer, medium, telepathist, spiritualist, spiritist rare necromancer, chirosophist, palmister - 1.1psychicstreated as singular or plural The study of psychic phenomena.
通灵学,心灵学,超自然学 Example sentencesExamples - Embarrassingly, various ladies in my family continue to cling to a belief in psychics, guardian angels, and other such bunk.
- Somehow they managed to take a super cool topic and ruin it with a bunch of math and psychics.
Derivativesadjective ˈsʌɪkɪk(ə)lˈsaɪkɪk(ə)l another term for psychic (sense 1 of the adjective) That is why future servicemen should not be ‘drilled’ but should be given systematic training with the utmost exertion of mental, psychical and physical powers. Example sentencesExamples - Mesmerists, spiritualists and psychical researchers alike maintained that there is a specific state of mystical trance that initiates persons into the experiential source of all true religious awareness.
- I would like to, as it were, reincarnate the spirit of psychical research in parapsychology, and I would like to give heart to those who have these interests and motivations: You are not alone.
adverb ˈsʌɪkɪkli Conflicting emotions were brought up in the process, and we used our counseling skills to work through these and find ways to transform them, both visually and psychically. Example sentencesExamples - Really, for a few days after this weird dream, I was convinced that I had been to a real place, inhabited psychically by hundreds of people I knew.
- Such a view ignores the extent to which intellectuals and politicians feed psychically on one another's approval.
- I was confronted with teachers I psychically sensed didn't believe what they were teaching.
- Conceivably what had further disturbed the madness that had claimed two lives and permanently scarred several more, physically and psychically.
noun ˈsʌɪkɪz(ə)mˈsaɪˌkɪz(ə)m mass nounPsychic powers or ability, especially telepathy or clairvoyance. to their surprise and chagrin their psychism has faded away Example sentencesExamples - On the other hand, intrusions defined as psychism are interpreted as messages from the spirit world that have accompanying moral imperatives, or as ‘proof’ of extrasensory perceptions or other esoteric beliefs.
- Also, as discussed earlier, psychism theory predicts that psychism reduces conformist beliefs and communal practices, and increases moral autonomy.
- Ultimately, because moral autonomy is not compatible with commitment to religious organizations, people who experience high levels of psychism should also have lower levels of participation in communal religious practices.
OriginEarly 19th century: from Greek psukhikos (see psyche1). Definition of psychic in US English: psychicadjectiveˈsīkikˈsaɪkɪk 1Relating to or denoting faculties or phenomena that are apparently inexplicable by natural laws, especially involving telepathy or clairvoyance. 通灵的,超自然的 通灵能力。 Example sentencesExamples - Clairvoyance is an alleged psychic ability to see things beyond the range of the power of vision.
- The study of psychic phenomena dictated the need to define the concept of the information-energy field.
- Any other form of remote viewing can best be termed, he says, as a psychic experience or clairvoyance.
- Even from a young age, I have always believed in the possibility of the paranormal, and of psychic powers.
- I had numerous talks with my father about psychic phenomena, the nature of the Divine, and other philosophical subjects.
- Precognition falls under the category of psychic phenomena, which is a subset of the paranormal.
- Scientists are rarely trained as magicians and have often been conned by demonstrators of psychic phenomena.
- Peter left the session disappointed with my unwillingness to believe in the psychic explanations for phenomena that he experiences.
- He also reported cases that suggest that experiences interpreted as ESP or other types of psychic phenomena can have the same effects.
- Parapsychology has distinguished itself by objective study of psychic phenomena.
- Despite the amazing array of physical and psychic phenomenon Julia struggled to acknowledge that it was a reality, as she comments.
- Religious reasoning explains in part why this author postulates we should not induce nor develop psychic phenomena.
- When a person has a traumatic experience it produces traumatic psychic energy.
- I have only recently begun to explore my psychic side, but have been strong in the areas of psychic dreams and clairvoyance.
- She was going to rely on the psychic link that they appeared to have at times; the one they were discussing earlier when Colt had kissed her for the first time.
- There are many ideas and traditions about psychic phenomena that have been regarded as superstitions.
- A number of your films contain the theme or subject of psychic phenomena as well as witchcraft and magic or what you might term occult subjects.
- Apparently not even psychic powers help rivalrous siblings connect with each other in adulthood.
- David has recently written a book on psychic phenomena from the standpoint of suspicious skeptic of the supernatural.
- The police have much to learn about the relative value of psychic phenomena in criminal investigations.
Synonyms supernatural, paranormal, other-worldly, supernormal, preternatural, metaphysical, extrasensory, transcendental, magic, magical, mystical, mystic, occult clairvoyant, telepathic, telekinetic, spiritualistic, with second sight, with a sixth sense - 1.1 (of a person) appearing or considered to have powers of telepathy or clairvoyance.
(人)有心灵感应的 I could sense it—I must be psychic 我能感觉到——我一定有心灵感应。 Example sentencesExamples - After this experience Dannion became quite psychic, which was witnessed by others.
- I mean, she must be psychic, right? How can she know this about me? How could she know about that girl/guy that broke my heart if she's not psychic?
- From there, several different people entered and exited the room, all claiming to be psychic and telepathic and telekinetic amongst other things.
- There are thousands of people every day thinking they must be psychic. But, did you know that being psychic is more than giving a reading?
- He's psychic, reading people's minds and believing he's communicating with the dead.
- If it's an experiment, you might want to start by inviting people to read your mind - or whatever - and establish a success rate among a few individuals who appear to be psychic enough to get in.
Synonyms non-material, inner, psychical, psychological
2Relating to the soul or mind. 灵魂的,精神的,心理的 he dulled his psychic pain with gin 他借酒消愁。 Example sentencesExamples - Fear, anger, psychic pain, and sadness are some of the emotional issues we probably stuffed down as kids.
- According to the old syllabus for our sentimental education, psychic pain is part of the material that must be mastered for human growth to take place.
- Long, long ago these deities had consumed their worshippers unto extinction for the psychic sustenance their dying souls provided.
- In the West, the target of cruelty centuries ago shifted from the body to the soul, to psychic pain - but the morality behind the practice remains.
- On the other hand, for all the psychic pain he pours into his songs, Johnston is a generous spirit.
Synonyms emotional, spiritual, inner 3Bridge Denoting a bid that deliberately misrepresents the bidder's hand, in order to mislead the opponents. 〔桥牌〕(误导对方的)心理叫牌
nounˈsīkikˈsaɪkɪk 1A person considered or claiming to have psychic powers; a medium. 通灵的人,巫师;灵物 Example sentencesExamples - On March 3rd, the Danish National Radio had a half-hour show about police use of psychics.
- She's a Tarot reader, a psychic in training, a crystal healer and an amateur witch.
- This is true of mediums / psychics and clairvoyants, gifted people who can see beyond and make contact with the other world.
- Did the public or the press learn to be more skeptical of the claims of alleged psychics?
- The third woman on his list, Carmen, is a psychic who claims to communicate with animals.
- Selection bias partly explains why there are so many satisfied customers who go to psychics, tarot card readers, palmists, and faith healers.
- White light protection is a method used by many spiritualists and psychics.
- Alan Vaughan was a psychic who claimed, among other wonders, to have prophetic dreams.
- Also, because readings involve energy flow and transfer between two people, not all psychics are compatible with all clients.
- It's reasonable to suppose that good psychics, like good hitters in baseball, succeed only a modest fraction of the time.
- No psychic has ever demonstrated mediumship under laboratory conditions.
- Or think of the pet psychic who claims she can read your dog's mind by looking at a photo of the dog.
- Finally, some cops use psychics, or even pretend to be psychic, to psych out superstitious suspects.
- I have had a few very horrible experiences with psychics where they manipulated me by fear and then took my money.
- No psychic, despite their claims, has ever helped the police solve a crime.
- Phony faith healers, psychics, channelers, televangelist miracle workers, etc., are as abundant as ever.
- He categorized the patterns as engineers, psychics, healers, millionaires, and remote viewers.
- It's possible to believe in psychics, homeopathy, God, dowsing, reincarnation and probably much else besides.
- These and other techniques help convince the credulous that pet psychics have telepathic or clairvoyant or other powers.
- Psychics aren't overly worried about other psychics reading their minds and revealing their innermost secrets to the world.
Synonyms clairvoyant, fortune teller, prophet, seer, soothsayer, forecaster of the future, crystal gazer, astrologer, prognosticator, prophesier, oracle, augur, sibyl, cassandra, mind reader, palmist, palm reader, chiromancer, medium, telepathist, spiritualist, spiritist - 1.1psychicstreated as singular or plural The study of psychic phenomena.
通灵学,心灵学,超自然学 Example sentencesExamples - Somehow they managed to take a super cool topic and ruin it with a bunch of math and psychics.
- Embarrassingly, various ladies in my family continue to cling to a belief in psychics, guardian angels, and other such bunk.
OriginEarly 19th century: from Greek psukhikos (see psyche). |