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psychological

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Word definitions for psychological in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Psychologic \Psy`cho*log"ic\, Psychological \Psy`cho*log"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. psychologique.] Of or pertaining to psychology. See Note under Psychic . -- Psy`cho*log"ic*al*ly , adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s; see psychology + -ical . Related: Psychologically . Psychological warfare recorded from 1940. Psychological moment was in vogue from 1871, from French moment psychologique "moment of immediate expectation of something about to happen."\n\nThe original ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. mental or emotional as opposed to physical in nature; "give psychological support"; "psychological warfare" of or relating to or determined by psychology; "psychological theories"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a mental/psychiatric/psychological disorder (= affecting the mind ) ▪ He was diagnosed with a severe psychiatric disorder. a psychological advantage ▪ Winning the first game gives you a psychological advantage over ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to psychology. 2 Without an objective, or reasonably logical foundation.

Usage examples of psychological.

The Abies children would be turned over to their maternal grandparents following a nutritious meal, routine physical and psychological examinations, and subsequent individual questioning.

In answer he attempts to relate psychological patterns to evolutionary adaptive behavior.

It is only now, some eighteen years later, that increasing numbers of experts are beginning to realize that it is the psychological state of the individual addict that counts and not the substance itself My accumulated knowledge of drug addiction comes from eighteen years of dealing with and answering effectively the questions and worries of the addicted.

The ostriches shut up in the planetwide aviary at Terra: those who lived in the sandpile because they had crumbled under the enormous psychological pressure suffered while emigrating.

But suppose: a psychological lab, operated by Interplan West, needing aviary patients as subjects.

It is her reconstruction of the psychological environment inside of that bimbo box.

That not only did people dream in cold sleep, they needed to dream, for long-term psychological health, and so biofeedback regulators were used to release serotonin into the bloodstream, and trigger REM sleep.

A psychological examiner raised the possibility of a bipolar, or manic-depressive, disorder.

Her former neighbor was still in a detention home for elderly offenders, undergoing psychological assessment to determine if he was fit to stand trial for his part in those long-ago deaths of Maggie Birk and his own newborn grandchild.

In 1972, scouting for the Houston Astros, Bogie administered what he believes to have been the first ever baseball psychological test, to a pitcher named Dick Ruthven.

He was very aware that he was pouring booze into himself to fill a yawning psychological emptiness.

The First International Congress of Zoologists for Psychological Research into Caudate Amphibians.

Because having total strangers confide their unhappiness gives Citronella a psychological lift.

My research has filled me with respect for the logical thinking, high science, deep psychological insights, and vast cosmographical knowledge of the ancient geniuses who composed those myths, and who, I am now fully persuaded, descended from the same lost civilization that produced the map-makers, pyramid builders, navigators, astronomers and earth-measurers whose fingerprints we have been following across the continents and oceans of the earth.

Most agreed that if she had been Russian she would never have passed the psychological tests required for every cosmonaut to prove suitable for space duty.