extrapsychic

English

Alternative forms

• extra-psychic

Etymology

extra- +‎ psychic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛkstɹəˈsaɪkɪk/

Adjective

extrapsychic (not comparable)

1. Outside the psyche or mind.
   • 1906, James Mark Baldwin, Thought and Things Volume 1‎^[1], Srinivasa Varadachari & Company, page 12:

     The question concerning the "real" or extrapsychic reference of cognition in general raises, by its very statement, the great question of the truth, validity, reality, not only of the objective, but also of the psychic as itself in some sense real.

   • 1907, Pokala Lakshmi Narasu, The Essence of Buddhism‎^[2], Srinivasa Varadachari & Company, page 160:

     There can be no such thing as extrapsychic or metapsychic. The neglect of this fundamental fact has given rise to all sorts of supposititious problems about self-subsisting unknowable things, foreign to one's consciousness but working on it.

   • 1940, The Journal of the American Medical Association 1940-03-23: Volume 114, Issue 12‎^[3], American Medical Association, page 1121:

     They are of extrapsychic origin and are related to the sympathetic centers.

Antonyms

• intrapsychic