psychology

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[edit] Etymology

From French psychologie < Latin psychologia < Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhē), “‘soul’”) + -logia (“‘study of’”).

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[edit] Noun

psychology (countable and uncountable; plural psychologies)

1. (uncountable) The study of the human mind.
2. (uncountable) The study of human behavior.
3. (uncountable) The study of animal behavior.
4. (countable) The mental characteristics of a particular individual.

   1970: Mary M. Luke, A Crown for Elizabeth, page 8:

   • "For generations, historians have conjectured everything from a warped psychology to a deformed body as accounting for Elizabeth's preferred spinsterhood..."

   1969: Victor Alba, The Latin Americans, page 42:

   • "In the United States, the psychology of a laborer, a farmer, a businessman does not differ in any important respect."

[edit] Related terms

• psychologist
• psychiatry
• psychiatrist
• parapsychology
• psychotherapy
• psyche
• psyched up

[edit] Translations

Translations to be checked

This translation table needs to be split into named sub-tables to allow for unambiguous translations. Please have a go at fixing this. See Wiktionary:How to check translations for more information. Albanian: psikologjia Basque: psikologia Bulgarian: психология (psihologija) f. Catalan: psicologia f. Dutch: psychologie nl(nl), zielkunde nl(nl) f. Esperanto psikologio Hebrew: פסיכולוגיה (psikologia) f.

Italian: psicologia f. Korean: 심리학 (simnihak) Latin: psychologia f. Latvian: psiholoģija f. Portuguese: psicologia f. Romanian: psihologie Slovak: psychológia f. Swedish: psykologi Telugu: మనస్తత్వ శాస్త్రము (manastatva Saastramu) Thai: จิตวิทยา th(th) (jìt wíttáyaa) Turkish: psikoloji

[edit] External links

• psychology in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• psychology in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911