psychics
- 1Plural of psychic.
Several psychics called the family, each claiming to know where the missing dog was.
The magician spent years exposing the tricks of so-called psychics.
Note
A plain -s plural that follows every meaning of the noun, from fortune-tellers and mediums to the middle type of humankind in the gnostic theologian Valentinus's scheme, set between the hylics and the pneumatics. The word itself does not say whether the powers are real, so writers who doubt them reach for so-called psychics.
- 2The study of the mind; psychology.
Note
Shaped like physics, and like physics it takes a singular verb: psychics is, not psychics are. Psychology took over the job long ago, and the word now suggests only people claiming special powers, so an older text that uses it for the science of the mind is easy to misread.
psychics is a form of psychic
psychic, noun: A person who has, or appears to have, extrasensory abilities such as precognition, clairvoyance and telepathy, or who seems open to paranormal or supernatural influences. Full entry
- Forms
- psychicpsychics plural
- Spelling
- psychic → psychics: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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