| 单词 |
psychics |
| 释义 |
psychics|ps-, ˈsaɪkɪks|
[f. psychic a., after earlier ns. in -ics = Gr. -ικά: see -ic 2.]
1. The science of psychical or mental phenomena; psychology.
1811–31Bentham Logic App., Wks. 1843 VIII. 284/1 Somatology,.. or somatics; psychology, psychognosy, or psychics—to one or other of these denominations will every branch of science, which has for its subject the field of, to us, perceptible existence.., be found referable. 1864Webster, Psychics, psychology. 1908B. Harraden Interplay 334 The joint researches in psychics and physics.
2. = psychical research: see psychical a. 3.
1895in Funk's Stand. Dict. 1942‘M. Innes’ Daffodil Affair iii. i. 80 She represents a rare but fairly well-understood morbid condition—that of one individual split up into several personalities... I should have imagined it to be pretty well off the slate of serious psychical inquiry. Lucy is psychopathology, not psychics. 1977Gramophone June 31/2 In a quite separate field, that of psychics, Percy Wilson's passing will have saddened many friends and associates. |
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单词 psychicism 释义 psychicism|ps-, saksz()m|[f. psychic a. + -ism.]The theory or study o......