psychological

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English psychology

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -icuslbor.

Old French -iquebor.

Middle English -ic

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālisbor.

Old French -albor.

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Latin -ālis

Old French -elbor.

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Latin -ālisbor.

Middle English -al

Middle English -ical

English -ical

English psychological

From psychology + -ical.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌsaɪ.kəˈlɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.kl̩/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌsaɪ.kəˈlɑː.d͡ʒɪ.kl̩/

Adjective

psychological (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to psychology.

   An inkblot test is a method of psychological evaluation.

2. Relating to the mind and behavior or to the mental, emotional, and behavioral characteristics pertaining to a specified person, group, or activity.

   I'm concerned about their psychological well-being.

   The film was a dark psychological thriller.

   • 2018 June 25, James Roland, “What is Hypergonadism?”, in Healthline‎^[1]:

     In mild cases of hypergonadism prior to puberty, the onset of physical and mood changes may not be abnormally early or significant enough to cause any psychological or long-term physical complications.

3. 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
• medicopsychological
• metapsychological
• neuropsychological
• nonpsychological
• paedopsychological
• palaeopsychological
• paleopsychological
• parapsychological
• pathopsychological
• physiopsychological
• prepsychological
• protopsychological
• pseudopsychological
• psychological autopsy
• psychological crisis
• psychological hedonism
• psychological injury
• psychologicality
• psychologically
• psychological moment
• psychologicalness
• psychological pricing
• psychological refractory period
• psychological slip
• psychological warfare
• psychomological
• robopsychological
• sociopsychological
• telepsychological
• unpsychological
• zoopsychological

Translations

of or pertaining to psychology

• Armenian: հոգեբանական (hy) (hogebanakan)
• Asturian: sicolóxicu
• Belarusian: псіхалагі́чны (psixalahíčny)
• Catalan: psicològic
• Cornish: brysoniethel
• Czech: psychologický (cs)
• Danish: psykologisk
• Dutch: psychologisch (nl)
• Esperanto: anima, psikologia
• Estonian: psühholoogiline (et)
• Finnish: psykologinen (fi)
• French: psychologique (fr)
• Galician: psicolóxico (gl)
• German: psychologisch (de)
• Greek: ψυχολογικός (el) (psychologikós)
• Hindi: मनोवैज्ञानिक (hi) (manovaijñānik)
• Indonesian: psikologis (id)
• Interlingua: psychologic
• Irish: síceolaíoch
• Italian: psicologico (it)
• Kazakh: психологиялық (psixologiälyq)
• Latvian: psiholoģisks
• Macedonian: психоло́шки (psiholóški)
• Malay: psikologikal
• Occitan: psicologic (oc)
• Polish: psychologiczny (pl)
• Portuguese: psicológico (pt)
• Romanian: psihologic (ro)
• Russian: психологи́ческий (ru) (psixologíčeskij)
• Spanish: psicológico (es)
• Swedish: psykologisk (sv)
• Tagalog: dalub-isipin
• Turkish: psikolojik (tr)
• Ukrainian: психологі́чний (psyxolohíčnyj)
• Welsh: seicolegol (cy)
• Yiddish: פּסיכאָלאָגיש (psikhologish)

Further reading

• Raymond Williams (1983), “Psychological”, in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, revised American edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 246.