psyche

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See also: Psyche, Psyché, psyché, and Psýché

English

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Etymology 1

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Learned borrowing from Latin psychē, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, soul).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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psyche (plural psyches)

  1. The human soul, mind, or spirit.
    • 2022 January 28, Em Beihold, Nick Lopez, Dru DeCaro, “Numb Little Bug”, in Egg in the Backseat[1], performed by Em Beihold:
      I've been driving in L.A. / And the world, it feels too big / Like a floating ball that's bound to break / Snap my psyche like a twig
    • 2023 November 20, Rory Carroll, Lisa O'Carroll, “‘It’s part of our psyche’: why Ireland sides with ‘underdog’ Palestine”, in The Guardian[2], →ISSN:
      We feel we have been victimised over the centuries. It’s part of our psyche – underneath it all we side with the underdog.”
  2. (chiefly psychology) The human mind as the central force in thought, emotion, and behavior of an individual.
  3. A small white butterfly, Leptosia nina, family Pieridae, of Asia and Australasia.
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Etymology 2

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Shortened form of psychology, from French psychologie, from Latin psychologia, from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, soul) and -λογία (-logía, study of)

Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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psyche (uncountable)

  1. Abbreviation of psychology.

Interjection

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psyche

  1. (colloquial) Alternative form of psych

Verb

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psyche (third-person singular simple present psyches, present participle psyching, simple past and past participle psyched)

  1. Alternative form of psych

Further reading

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Dutch

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Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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From Latin psychē, from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ).

Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: psy‧che

Noun

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psyche f (plural psyches)

  1. psyche, soul, spirit

Derived terms

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Latin

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, soul, breath).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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psychē f (genitive psychēs); first declension

  1. mind
  2. spirit

Declension

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First-declension noun (Greek-type).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative psychē psychae
Genitive psychēs psychārum
Dative psychae psychīs
Accusative psychēn psychās
Ablative psychē psychīs
Vocative psychē psychae

Polish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Learned borrowing from Latin psychē.

Noun

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psyche f (indeclinable)

  1. (literary, psychoanalysis) psyche (human soul, mind, or spirit)
    Synonym: psychika

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from French psyché.

Noun

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psyche f (indeclinable)

  1. cheval glass (long mirror, mounted on a swivel in a frame, allowing it to be tilted)
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Further reading

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  • psyche in Polish dictionaries at PWN