Psychic - English meaning

noun

A person who uses astrology to tell others about their character or to predict their future.

Usage examples:

He was advised by astrologers to delay his departure

noun

Someone who studies astrology and uses it to tell people how they believe it will affect their lives

verb

(of an event or circumstance) portend a good or bad outcome.

Usage examples:

The end of the cold war seemed to augur well

noun

(in ancient rome) a religious official who observed natural signs, especially the behaviour of birds, interpreting these as an indication of divine approval or disapproval of a proposed action.

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In the case of the augurs or haruspices of rome, the animal was sacrificed to permit contemplation …

verb

To be a sign of especially good or bad things in the future

Usage examples:

The company's sales figures for the first six months augur well for the rest of the year., do you t…

proper noun

A daughter of the trojan king priam. she was given the gift of prophecy by apollo, but when she cheated him, he turned this into a curse by causing her prophecies, though true, to be disbelieved.

noun

A prophet of disaster, especially one who is disregarded.

Usage examples:

Seldom have the unwanted words of a cassandra been more ignored than his speech on the us economy

noun

The twenty-second letter of the greek alphabet ( χ, χ ), transliterated as ‘kh’ or ‘ch’.

noun

Variant spelling of qi.

noun

The circulating life force whose existence and properties are the basis of much chinese philosophy and medicine.

noun

A person who claims to have a supernatural ability to perceive events in the future or beyond normal sensory contact.

Usage examples:

She has had a message from a clairvoyant that her son is alive and well

adjective

Having or exhibiting clairvoyance.

Usage examples:

He didn't tell me about it and i'm not clairvoyant

adjective

Relating to cognition.

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The cognitive processes involved in reading

adjective

Connected with thinking or conscious mental processes

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Cognitive function some of her cognitive functions have been impaired., cognitive behaviour/develop…

adjective

Relating to a person's emotions.

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Gaining emotional support from relatives

adjective

Connected with or showing feelings

Usage examples:

The mayor made an emotional appeal for aid following the tornado., the coach appeared emotionally d…

adjective

Without the use of hearing, seeing, touch, taste, and smell

adjective

Situated inside or further in; internal.

Usage examples:

An inner courtyard

noun

The inner part of something.

Usage examples:

Using his rock shoes as inners for his double boots

adjective

Inside or contained within something else

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These islands lie between the bay’s outer and inner sections., she met life’s challenges with coura…

adjective

Relating to the intellect.

Usage examples:

Children need intellectual stimulation

noun

A person possessing a highly developed intellect.

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A prominent political thinker and intellectual

adjective

Relating to the ability to think and understand ideas at a high level, or involving ideas

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He was among the political and intellectual leaders of his time.

noun

The power of apparently influencing events by using mysterious or supernatural forces.

Usage examples:

Suddenly, as if by magic, the doors start to open

adjective

Having or apparently having supernatural powers.

Usage examples:

A magic wand

verb

Move, change, or create by or as if by magic.

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He must have been magicked out of the car at the precise second it exploded

adjective

Relating to, using, or resembling magic.

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Magical healing powers

adjective

Of, relating to, or having special powers to make things happen that would usually be impossible

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It’s a story about a timid schoolteacher who obtains magical powers after he’s hit by a lightning b…

adjective

Relating to the mind.

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Mental faculties

adjective

Of or about the mind, or involving the process of thinking

Usage examples:

Stress can affect both your physical and mental health., many people suffer from some form of menta…

adjective

Relating to metaphysics.

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The essentially metaphysical question of the nature of mind

noun

The metaphysical poets.

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Or eliot, who wrote on the metaphysicals, marvell, dryden, blake, wordsworth, baudelaire and, of co…

adjective

Relating to the part of philosophy that deals with existence and knowledge

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Metaphysical questions about the nature of the universe

adjective

Of or relating to the mind; mental.

noun

A person who seeks by contemplation and self-surrender to obtain unity with or absorption into the deity or the absolute, or who believes in the spiritual apprehension of truths that are beyond the intellect.

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The poetry of the 16th-century spanish mystic, st john of the cross

adjective

Another term for mystical.

noun

A person who tries to communicate directly with god or other forces controlling the universe

Usage examples:

His ideas might sound familiar to new age mystics today.

adjective

Relating to mystics or religious mysticism.

Usage examples:

The mystical theology of richard rolle

adjective

Relating to the belief that there is hidden meaning in life, or that each human being can unite with god

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A mystical religion, she joined a religious community after having a series of mystical visions., o…

adjective

Relating to witchcraft or black magic, especially the supposed practice of communicating with the dead.

Usage examples:

Necromantic spells

noun

Mystical, supernatural, or magical powers, practices, or phenomena.

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A secret society to study alchemy and the occult

adjective

Involving or relating to mystical, supernatural, or magical powers, practices, or phenomena.

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An occult ceremony

verb

Cut off from view by interposing something.

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A wooden screen designed to occult the competitors

noun

A priest or priestess acting as a medium through whom advice or prophecy was sought from the gods in classical antiquity.

Usage examples:

Her priests and oracles are all being kept in the tower.

noun

(especially in ancient greece) a female priest who gave people wise but often mysterious advice from a god, or the advice given

Usage examples:

Professor ross is regarded as the oracle on eating disorders.

noun

A person who practises palmistry; a palm reader.

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They are identified by palmists as head lines, heart lines, life lines, and fate or destiny lines, …

noun

A person who looks at the lines on the palm of your hand and tells you what these lines say about your character and your future

adjective

Denoting events or phenomena such as telekinesis or clairvoyance that are beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding.

Usage examples:

A mystic who can prove he has paranormal powers

adjective

Impossible to explain by known natural forces or by science

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Paranormal powers/events/forces, this book is about people who claim to have paranormal abilities s…

adjective

Relating to the diaphragm.

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The phrenic nerves

adjective

Relating to the diaphragm (= a sheet of muscle that separates the chest from the abdomen)

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A phrenic artery/nerve

adjective

Beyond what is normal or natural.

Usage examples:

Autumn had arrived with preternatural speed

adjective

More than is usual or natural

Usage examples:

Anger gave me preternatural strength, and i managed to force the door open.

noun

A person who foretells or prophesies a future event.

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There are many prognosticators predicting the worst

noun

A person regarded as an inspired teacher or proclaimer of the will of god.

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The old testament prophet, jeremiah

noun

A person who speaks for god or a god, or a person who tells what will happen in the future

adjective

Relating to mental illness or its treatment.

Usage examples:

A psychiatric disorder

adjective

Of or relating to the study of mental illness

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Psychiatric treatment, a psychiatric patient, the hospital's psychiatric unit

adjective

Another term for psychic (sense 1 of the adjective).

adjective

Relating to special mental abilities or to events that cannot be explained by science, such as the ability to know what will happen in the future or the appearance of ghosts

Usage examples:

The society for psychical research is investigating reports of a ghost at the old vicarage., many p…

adjective

Having a psychological origin or cause rather than a physical one.

Usage examples:

Psychogenic ill health

adjective

Of, affecting, or arising in the mind; related to the mental and emotional state of a person.

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The victim had sustained physical and psychological damage

adjective

Relating to the study of the mind

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Psychological testing, her problems were psychological., psychological stress/well-being, her new n…

adjective

Relating to the human mind and feelings

Usage examples:

The experience of being fired has had lasting psychological effects., the rail disaster had a psych…

noun

A person of supposed supernatural insight who sees visions of the future.

Usage examples:

A seer had foretold that the earl would assume the throne

noun

(in south asia) a varying unit of weight (about one kilogram) or liquid measure (about one litre).

noun

A woman in ancient times who was thought to utter the prophecies of a god.

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Looking on are the prophets and sibyls, the mysterious seers of man's tragedy.

noun

Any of several women in the ancient world who were thought to be able to see into the future

noun

A person supposed to be able to foresee the future.

Usage examples:

Do you really think that while they're arresting heretics is the best time to be having trade with …

noun

A person who is believed to have the ability to know and tell what will happen in the future

abbreviation

Species (usually singular).

abbreviation

Starting price.

noun

A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding. the species is the principal natural taxonomic unit, ranking below a genus and denoted by a latin binomial, e.g. homo sapiens.

adjective

Relating to or affecting the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things.

Usage examples:

I'm responsible for his spiritual welfare

noun

A religious song of a kind associated with black christians of the southern us, and thought to derive from the combination of european hymns and african musical elements by black slaves.

Usage examples:

The cwmbach male voice choir entertained with a traditional repertoire of welsh hymns, spirituals a…

noun

A kind of religious song, originally developed by african-americans

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Religion focuses on the spiritual side of life., he’s the group’s spiritual leader., researchers ar…

adjective

(of a manifestation or event) attributed to some force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature.

Usage examples:

A supernatural being

noun

Manifestations or events considered to be of supernatural origin, such as ghosts.

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A frightening manifestation of the supernatural

adjective

(of something’s cause or existence) not able to be explained by the laws of science

Usage examples:

From the center of the tree, a supernatural light began to glow.

adjective

Exceeding or beyond the normal; exceptional.

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A supernormal human

adjective

Much higher than usual

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Supernormal growth/profits/returns

adjective

Having an ability to move objects, or to make them change shape, using only the power of the mind

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Telekinetic powers

adjective

Supposedly capable of transmitting thoughts to other people and of knowing their thoughts; psychic.

Usage examples:

A team of telepathic superheroes who can read each other's thoughts

adjective

Having or showing the ability to know what is in someone else's mind, or to communicate with someone mentally, without using words or other physical signals

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The two men have an almost telepathic connection.

adjective

Relating to a spiritual realm.

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The transcendental importance of each person's soul

adjective

A transcendental experience, event, object, or idea is extremely special and unusual and cannot be understood in ordinary ways

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A transcendental vision of the nature of god