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Psychologically

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.

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psychologically

adv. 1 In a psychological manner. 2 Employing psychology.

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psychologically
  1. adv. with regard to psychology; "war that caught them in its toils either psychologically or physically"; "the event was very damaging to the child psychologically1"

  2. in terms of psychology; "classify poetry psychologically"

Usage examples of "psychologically".

The negotiator worked to isolate the suspect while at the same time setting himself in a position to wait, psychologically starving out the individual, as here, where Abies had effectively been placed under house arrest.

It is easy to see that the method, while it gives unusual freshness to imaginative representation, is in essence hostile to all culture and all social form, and is psychologically akin to anarchism.

He hoped to win the throw, not because he especially wanted to venture out among the low whaleback hills but because he thought Bahadur was in poor shape psychologically to make the journey himself.

The Crucians were physically and psychologically able to at least partly suppress their need for room, which otherwise would have made space vehicles out of the question for them.

Aiding anti-Communist efforts abroad raised the price of Soviet expansionism and weakened the USSR militarily, economically, and psychologically.

If such feminizing activity occurred only in the brain, the effect would be manifested psychologically rather than physically.

However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life.

And no doubt youre psychologically prepared for the destruction of everybody on board, and the wampus and the other marine life for kilometers around.

Her own singular experiences in this enchanted region were certainly not suggested by anything she had heard, and may be considered psychologically curious by those who would not think of attributing any mystical meaning to them.

The workers, on the other hand, though racked by disease and neurosis bred of their cramping environment, were on the whole psychologically more robust.

But are you saying that all philosophically mistaken ideas are psychologically or neurotically motivated?

There was scant mention of treatment plans, prognoses, stress histories--anything that could be considered medically or psychologically relevant.

There is no doubt that God delivers people from various kinds of bondage instantaneously, but for a Christian to attribute foibles to the direct activity of demons is both unbiblical and psychologically harmful.

Through ghettoization, the Jew was jettisoned beyond that boundary and placed psychologically and physically outside the culture, its practices and values, its social and political institutions and living spaces.

For our own gynecologists have recently discovered that many women can be conditioned psychologically for natural and painless childbirth.