psychology

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: psy=chol=o=gy

CIDE DICTIONARY

psychology, n. [Psycho- + -logy: cf. F. psychologie. See Psychical.].

 The science of the human soul; specifically, the systematic or scientific knowledge of the powers and functions of the human soul, so far as they are known by consciousness; a treatise on the human soul.  [1913 Webster]
"Psychology, the science conversant about the phenomena of the mind, or conscious subject, or self."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

psychology, n. (pl. -ies)
1 the scientific study of the human mind and its functions, esp. those affecting behaviour in a given context.
2 a treatise on or theory of this.
3 a the mental characteristics or attitude of a person or group. b the mental factors governing a situation or activity (the psychology of crime).

Derivative

psychologist n. psychologize v.tr. & intr. (also -ise).

Etymology

mod.L psychologia (as PSYCHO-, -LOGY)

THESAURUS

psychology

affect, affectivity, anatomy, anthropography, anthropologist, anthropology, anthropometry, attitude, behavior, behavioral science, constitution, craniology, craniometry, demography, emotion, emotions, emotivity, ethnography, ethnologist, ethnology, feeling, feeling tone, feelings, human ecology, human geography, mental attitude, nature, opinion, position, posture, psyche, rationale, reasoning, science of man, sentiment, sociologist, sociology, stance, thinking, way of thinking

ROGET THESAURUS

psychology

Intellect

N intellect, mind, understanding, reason, thinking principle, rationality, cogitative faculties, cognitive faculties, discursive faculties, reasoning faculties, intellectual faculties, faculties, senses, consciousness, observation, percipience, intelligence, intellection, intuition, association of ideas, instinct, conception, judgment, wits, parts, capacity, intellectuality, genius, brains, cognitive powers, intellectual powers, wit, ability, wisdom, Vernunft, Verstand, soul, spirit, ghost, inner man, heart, breast, bosom, penetralia mentis, divina particula aurae, heart's core, the Absolute, psyche, subliminal consciousness, supreme principle, brain, organ of thought, seat of thought, sensorium, sensory, head, headpiece, pate, noddle, noggin, skull, scull, pericranium, cerebrum, cranium, brainpan, sconce, upper story, central processing unit, CPU, arithmetic and logical unit, ALU, metaphysics, psychics, psychology, ideology, mental philosophy, moral philosophy, philosophy of the mind, pneumatology, phrenology, craniology, cranioscopy, ideality, idealism, transcendentalism, spiritualism, immateriality, universal concept, universal conception, metaphysician, psychologist, intellectual, mental, rational, subjective, metaphysical, nooscopic, spiritual, ghostly, psychical, psychological, cerebral, animastic, brainy, hyperphysical, superphysical, subconscious, subliminal, immaterial, endowed with reason, in petto, ens rationis, frons est animi janua, locos y ninos dicen la verdad, mens sola loco non exulat, my mind is my kingdom, stern men with empires in their brains, the mind, the music breathing from her face, thou living ray of intellectual Fire.