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Definition of: psychic
(sī′kik) adjective
1. Pertaining to the mind or soul; mental, as distinguished from physical and physiological.
2. Psychol. Pertaining to or designating those mental phenomena which are, or appear to be, independent of normal sensory stimuli and which cannot be fully explained in terms of the known data of experimental science, as clairvoyance, telepathy, and extrasensory perception. Compare PARAPSYCHOLOGY.
3. Caused by, proceeding from, associated with, or attributed to a non-material or occult agency.
4. Sensitive to mental or occult phenomena. Also psy′chi·cal.
—noun
1. A person sensitive to mental or extrasensory phenomena; especially, a spiritualistic medium.
2. The field of extrasensory phenomena: with the. [<Gk. psychikos <psychē soul]
—psy′chi·cal·ly adverb
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