psychical

• HYPHEN: psy=chi=cal

CIDE DICTIONARY

psychical, a. [L. psychicus, Gr. , fr. psychh` the soul, mind; cf. to blow: cf. F. psychique.].

•  Of or pertaining to the human soul, or to the living principle in man.  [1913 Webster]

  " This term was formerly used to express the same idea as psychological. Recent metaphysicians, however, have employed it to mark the difference between psychh` the living principle in man, and pney^ma the rational or spiritual part of his nature. In this use, the word describes the human soul in its relation to sense, appetite, and the outer visible world, as distinguished from spiritual or rational faculties, which have to do with the supersensible world. Heyse. "  [1913 Webster]
•  Of or pertaining to the mind, or its functions and diseases; mental; -- contrasted with physical.  [1913 Webster]

Psychical blindness, Psychical deafness (Med.), forms of nervous disease in which, while the senses of sight and hearing remain unimpaired, the mind fails to appreciate the significance of the sounds heard or the images seen. -- Psychical contagion, the transference of disease, especially of a functional nervous disease, by mere force of example. -- Psychical medicine, that department of medicine which treats of mental diseases.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

psychical, adj.
1 concerning psychic phenomena or faculties (psychical research).
2 of the soul or mind.

Derivative

psychically adv. psychicism n. psychicist n.

THESAURUS

psychical

airy, arcane, asomatous, astral, automatist, bodiless, cerebral, clairaudient, clairsentient, clairvoyant, conceptive, conceptual, decarnate, decarnated, discarnate, disembodied, ectoplasmic, eerie, endopsychic, esoteric, ethereal, etheric, extramundane, extrasensory, extraterrestrial, fey, ghostish, ghostlike, ghostly, ghosty, hypernormal, hyperphysical, immaterial, impalpable, imponderable, incorporate, incorporeal, insubstantial, intangible, internal, mediumistic, mental, mysterious, noetic, nonmaterial, nonphysical, noological, numinous, occult, otherworldly, phantasmal, phantasmic, phantom, phantomic, phantomlike, phrenic, preterhuman, preternatural, preternormal, pretersensual, psychic, psychokinetic, psychologic, psychological, psychosensory, rational, reasoning, second-sighted, shadowy, specterlike, spectral, spiritual, spiritualistic, subjective, superhuman, supernatural, supernormal, superphysical, supersensible, supersensory, supersensual, supramundane, supranatural, telekinetic, telepathic, thinking, transcendental, transmundane, unearthly, unembodied, unextended, unfleshly, unhuman, unphysical, unsubstantial, unworldly, wraithlike, wraithy

ROGET THESAURUS

psychical

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.