psychic

Pluralpsychics

1. 1
   seernouncountable

   A person who seems able to see the future, read minds, or feel things like ghosts and spirits.

   My aunt visits a psychic every year to ask about her future.

   The psychic at the fair said she could tell what I was thinking.

   Similarclairvoyant, seer

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2. 2
   adjective

   Able to know things without being told, or having to do with that kind of power.

   You knew I'd call? Are you psychic or something?

   The show is about a girl with psychic powers who can hear other people's thoughts.

   Similarclairvoyant, telepathic, paranormal, extrasensory

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3. 3
   spirit mediumnouncountable

   A person who says they can talk to people who have died.

   The psychic told us that my grandfather was in the room with us.

   They paid a psychic to help them send a message to their dead son.

   Similarmedium, spiritualist

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   mentaladjective

   Having to do with the mind and how it works.

   War can cause psychic harm as well as harm to the body.

   The constant noise took a psychic toll on everyone in the building.

   Similarmental, psychological, emotional

   Oppositephysical, bodily

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   middle type (religion)nouncountable

   In the teachings of the gnostic thinker Valentinus, a person of the second of three kinds, who lives mainly through the mind.

   The followers of Valentinus believed that a psychic was guided mainly by the mind.

   In this old belief, a psychic is wiser than a hylic but not yet fully spiritual.

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