psychological
English
Etymology
From psychology + -ical.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
psychological (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to psychology.
- I'm concerned about their psychological well-being.
- The film was a dark psychological thriller.
- Without an objective, or reasonably logical foundation.
- Prices seem to have stopped rising, having hit the psychological ceiling of just under 100 dollars.
Derived terms
- antipsychological
- autopsychological
- biopsychological
- chronopsychological
- cyberpsychological
- ecopsychological
- ethnopsychological
- intrapsychological
- metapsychological
- neuropsychological
- nonpsychological
- paedopsychological
- palaeopsychological
- parapsychological
- pathopsychological
- physiopsychological
- protopsychological
- pseudopsychological
- psychological autopsy
- psychological hedonism
- psychological injury
- psychologically
- psychological refractory period
- psychological slip
- psychological warfare
- psychomological
- robopsychological
- sociopsychological
- unpsychological
- zoopsychological
Translations
of or pertaining to psychology
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Further reading
- "psychological" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 246.