psychological
/sʌɪkəˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)l
/adjective
1Of, affecting, or arising in the mind; related to the mental and emotional state of a person: the victim had sustained physical and psychological damage...
- The end product is of course very different, but the internal or psychological processes are related.
- Does he not see the inner torment and psychological damage this is causing me?
- In the north of Europe, the Fauves' celebration of color was pushed to new emotional and psychological depths.
Synonyms
mental, emotional, intellectual, inner, non-physical, cerebral, brain, rational, cognitive, abstract, conceptual, theoretical
rare psychical, mindly, phrenic
1.1Relating to psychology: psychological research...
- She took a sabbatical and has continued with her psychological researches while sailing the South Seas.
- I find consolation in the fact that psychological research shows that man is capable of empathy as well as evil.
- The new research looked at psychological tests done 12 months after the first injection.
1.2(Of an ailment or problem) having a mental rather than a physical cause: it was concluded that her pain was psychological...
- Most sexual problems have a psychological rather than a physical cause.
- Scientific research has successfully shown that abortion causes many psychological side effects.
- The first is how psychoanalysis, if it is a myth, can solve psychological problems.
Synonyms
(all) in the mind, psychosomatic, emotional, irrational, subjective, subconscious, subliminal, unconscious;
imaginary, unreal
- prescription book
- prescription drug
- prescription glass
- prescriptionist
- prescription medicine
- prescriptive
- prescriptively
- prescriptiveness
- prescriptivism
- prescriptivist
- prescriptivity
- prescutum
- Presdwood
- preseason
- presee
- preselect
- preselection
- preselective
- preselector
- pre-sell
- preseminal
- presence
- presence chamber
- presenced
- presence of mind