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   psychic

   /ˈsʌɪkɪk/

   adjective

   • 1. relating to or denoting faculties or phenomena that are apparently inexplicable by natural laws, especially involving telepathy or clairvoyance: "psychic powers" Similar supernaturalparanormalother-worldlysupernormalpreternaturalmetaphysicalextrasensorytranscendentalmagicmagicalmysticalmysticoccultrare:necromanticclairvoyanttelepathictelekineticspiritualisticwith second sightwith a sixth sense
   • ▪ appearing or considered to have powers of telepathy or clairvoyance: "I could sense it—I must be psychic"
   • 2. relating to the soul or mind: "he dulled his psychic pain with gin" Similar emotionalspiritualinnercognitivepsychologicalintellectualmentalpsychiatricpsychogenicrare:psychicalmindlyphrenic
   • 3. denoting a bid that deliberately misrepresents the bidder's hand, in order to mislead the opponents.

   noun

   • 1. a person considered or claiming to have psychic powers; a medium: "pier-end palmists and fake psychics"
   • ▪ the study of psychic phenomena: "the field of psychics"

   Word Origin mid 19th century: from Latin psychicus ‘relating to the soul’, from Greek psukhikos (see psyche1).

   Derivatives

   • 1. psychically adverb

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