psychological

psy·cho·log·i·cal

adj \ˌsī-kə-ˈlä-ji-kəl\

Definition of PSYCHOLOGICAL

1

a : of or relating to psychology b : mental

2

: directed toward the will or toward the mind specifically in its conative function <psychological warfare>

— psy·cho·log·i·cal·ly \-ji-k(ə-)lē\ adverb

Variants of PSYCHOLOGICAL

psy·cho·log·i·cal also psy·cho·log·ic \-jik\

Examples of PSYCHOLOGICAL

1. a psychological rather than a physical condition
2. <suffered from psychological disorders all of his life>

First Known Use of PSYCHOLOGICAL

circa 1688

Related to PSYCHOLOGICAL

Synonyms: cerebral, inner, intellectual, interior, internal, mental (also psychologic)

Antonyms: nonmental

Related Words: cognitive, conscious, epistemic, knowing; noetic; psychic (also psychical), telepathic; alert, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, intelligent, quick-witted, rational, reasoning, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, thinking

Near Antonyms: bodily, carnal, corporal, corporeal, fleshly, physical, somatic; unconscious; brainless, dense, doltish, dopey (also dopy), fatuous, half-witted, mindless, obtuse, simple, slow-witted, stupid, thick, thickheaded, unintelligent, weak-minded, witless

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Other Psychology Terms

fetish, hypochondria, intelligence, mania, narcissism, neurosis, pathological, psychosis, schadenfreude, subliminal

Rhymes with PSYCHOLOGICAL

astrological, biological, Christological, chronological, cosmological, cryptological, ecological, ethnological, extralogical, gemological, graphological, horological, morphological, mycological, mythological, neurological, oncological, pathological, pedagogical, philological, phrenological, scatological, seismological, tautological, technological, theological, topological, typological, zoological