parapsychology

English

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Etymology

From para- (after paranormal) + psychology.

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌpɛrəˌsaɪˈkɑlədʒi/

Noun

parapsychology ‎(countable and uncountable, plural parapsychologies)

1. The study of that which cannot yet be explained; psychic or occult phenomena, such as telepathy and ghosts.

Translations

study of that which cannot yet be explained

• Albanian: parapsikologjia f
• Basque: parapsikologia (eu)
• Belarusian: парапсіхалогія f ‎(parapsixalohija)
• Catalan: parapsicologia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 超心理學, 超心理学 ‎(chāoxīnlǐxué), 心靈學, 心灵学 ‎(xīnlíngxué), 靈學 (zh), 灵学 (zh) ‎(língxué), 通靈學, 通灵学 ‎(tōnglíngxué)

• Czech: parapsychologie f
• Danish: parapsykologi c
• Dutch: parapsychologie (nl) f
• Esperanto: parapsikologio
• Estonian: parapsühholoogia
• Finnish: parapsykologia (fi)
• French: parapsychologie (fr) f
• German: Parapsychologie (de) f
• Greek: παραψυχολογία (el) f ‎(parapsychología)
• Hungarian: parapszichológia (hu)
• Indonesian: parapsikologi (id)
• Italian: parapsicologia f, metapsichica f
• Japanese: 超心理学 ‎(ちょうしんりがく, chōshinrigaku)

• Khmer: អធិចិត្តវិទ្យា ‎(ak thi chit vi tyea)
• Korean: 초심리학 ‎(超心理學, chosimrihak)
• Latvian: parapsiholoģija
• Lithuanian: parapsichologija f
• Macedonian: парапсихологија ‎(parapsihologija)
• Norwegian: parapsykologi (no)
• Polish: parapsychologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: parapsicologia f, pesquisa psi f
• Romanian: parapsihologie (ro) f
• Russian: парапсихоло́гия (ru) f ‎(parapsixológija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: парапсихологија f

  Roman: parapsihologija (sh) f

• Slovak: parapsychológia f
• Spanish: parapsicología f
• Swedish: parapsykologi (sv) c
• Turkish: parapsikoloji (tr)
• Ukrainian: парапсихологія ‎(parapsyxolohija)
• Yiddish: פּאַראַפּסיכאָלאָגיע f ‎(parapsikhologye)

Related terms

• metaphysics
• paranormal