psychic
[adjective]
Synonyms:
- supernatural, mystic, occult
- mental, psychological, spiritual

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Related Words: telepathic, spiritual, impressible, impressionable, responsive, sensible, sensile, sensitive, sentient, susceptible, susceptive

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I. psy‧chic¹ /ˈsaɪkɪk/ adjective [no comparative]
[Date: 1700-1800; Language: Greek; Origin: psychikos, from psyche; ⇒ psyche]

1. (also psy‧chi‧cal /ˈsaɪkɪkəl/) relating to the power of the human mind to do strange or surprising things that cannot be explained by reason:
a spiritual healer with psychic powers
a documentary on psychic phenomena

2. someone who is psychic has the ability to know what other people are thinking or what will happen in the future ⇒ clairvoyant:
You don’t have to be psychic to know what Maggie is thinking.

3. (also psychical) affecting the mind rather than the body:
psychic disorders (=illnesses)
—psychically /-kli/ adverb

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II. psychic² noun [countable]
someone who has mysterious powers, especially the ability to receive messages from dead people or to know what will happen in the future

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