psyche
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Etymology 1
Learned borrowing from Latin psychē, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: sī'kē, IPA(key): /ˈsaɪ.ki/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
psyche (plural psyches)
- The human soul, mind, or spirit.
- 2022 January 28, Em Beihold, Nick Lopez, Dru DeCaro, “Numb Little Bug”, in Egg in the Backseat, 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, →ISSN:
- We feel we have been victimised over the centuries. It’s part of our psyche – underneath it all we side with the underdog.”
- (chiefly psychology) The human mind as the central force in thought, emotion, and behavior of an individual.
- A small white butterfly, Leptosia nina, family Pieridae, of Asia and Australasia.
Translations
the human soul, mind, or spirit
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Etymology 2
Shortened form of psychology, from French psychologie, from Latin psychologia, from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul”) and -λογία (-logía, “study of”)
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsaɪk/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -aɪk
Noun
psyche (uncountable)
Interjection
psyche
- (colloquial) Alternative form of psych
Verb
psyche (third-person singular simple present psyches, present participle psyching, simple past and past participle psyched)
- Alternative form of psych
Further reading
- “psyche”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “psyche”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Etymology
From Latin psychē, from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ).
Pronunciation
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: psy‧che
Noun
psyche f (plural psyches)
Derived terms
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul, breath”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpsy.kʰeː/, [ˈps̠ʏkʰeː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpsi.ke/, [ˈpsiːke]
Noun
psychē f (genitive psychēs); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun (Greek-type).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpsɘ.xɛ/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ɘxɛ
- Syllabification: psy‧che
- Homophones: Psyche, psychę
Etymology 1
Learned borrowing from Latin psychē.
Noun
psyche f (indeclinable)
- (literary, psychoanalysis) psyche (human soul, mind, or spirit)
- Synonym: psychika
Etymology 2
Noun
psyche f (indeclinable)
- cheval glass (long mirror, mounted on a swivel in a frame, allowing it to be tilted)
Related terms
nouns
Further reading
- psyche in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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