psychical

Variant of psychic

psychic definition

psy·chic (sī′kik)

adjective

  1. of or having to do with the psyche, or mind
  2. beyond natural or known physical processes
  3. apparently sensitive to forces beyond the physical world
Also psychical psy′·chi·cal

Etymology: < Gr psychikos, of the soul, spiritual < psychē, the soul: see psyche

noun

  1. a person who is supposedly sensitive to forces beyond the physical world
  2. a spiritualistic medium

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