psychology
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psychology
- /saɪˈkɒl.ə.d͡ʒɪ/ UK
- /saɪˈkɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/ US
- /sɑɪˈkɔl.ə.d͡ʒɪ/ Australia
Rhymes with -ɒlədʒi
Where it comes from
From French psychologie, from Renaissance Latin psychologia, from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul”) + -λογία (-logía, “study of”), equivalent to psycho- + -logy. The Latin term is believed by some to have been coined in a lost treatise by Croatian humanist Marko Marulić (1450–1524), but this is disputed by other scholars. It is first attested in the 1570s, at which time it was apparently already current, and may be a Hellenization of the established expression dē animā (“on the soul”) in titles.
noun psychologies
- The study of the human mind. Idleness is the beginning of all psychology .
- The study of human or animal behavior.
- The study of the soul. Alcinous in Didascalius chapter 23 uses the three physical locations of the human soul from Timaeus 69c–72c […] to lead into a dedicated discussion of psychology.
- The mental, emotional, and behavioral characteristics pertaining to a specified person, group, or activity. For generations, historians have conjectured everything from a warped psychology to a deformed body as accounting for Elizabeth's preferred spinsterhood...
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Closest in meaning: psychological science, psyche, soul, mental, psychological, mentality, mindset, mind, correspondence, self, sentiment, attitude, self-control, self-restraint, psych, psychiatric
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noun study of the human mind
| Español | psicología |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 심리학 simnihak |
| 日本語 | 心理学 shinrigaku, サイコロジー saikorojī |
| 中文 | 心理學 /心理学 xīnlǐxué |
| हिन्दी | मनोविज्ञान manovijñān, मानसशास्त्र mānasśāstra |
| Kiswahili | saikolojia, elimunafsia |
| Português | psicologia |
| Français | psychologie |
| Deutsch | Psychologie, Seelenkunde |
| Italiano | psicologia |
| Ελληνικά | ψυχολογία psychología |
| Română | psihologie |
| Русский | психоло́гия psixológija, пси́хика psíxika |
| Tiếng Việt | tâm lý học |
| العربية | سَيْكُولُوجْيَا saykolōjyā, عِلْم النَّفْس ʕilm an-nafs |
| עברית | פְּסִיכוֹלוֹגְיָה psikhológya |
noun the study of human or animal behavior
| Español | psicología |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 심리학 simnihak |
| 日本語 | 心理学 shinrigaku, サイコロジー saikorojī |
| 中文 | 心理學 /心理学 xīnlǐxué |
| Português | psicologia |
| Français | psychologie |
| Deutsch | Psychologie |
| Ελληνικά | ψυχολογία psychología |
| Русский | психоло́гия psixológija |
| العربية | سَيْكُولُوجْيَا saykolōjyā, عِلْم النَّفْس ʕilm an-nafs |
noun the mental characteristics of a particular individual
| Español | psicología |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 심리 simni |
| 日本語 | 心理 shinri |
| 中文 | 心理 xīnlǐ |
| Português | psicologia |
| Français | psychologie |
| Deutsch | Psychologie |
| Ελληνικά | ψυχολογία psychología |
| Русский | психоло́гия psixológija |
Talk about this word "psychology." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/psychology. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. psychology. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/psychology "psychology." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/psychology.Cite this
@misc{psychology_2026,
title = {psychology},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/psychology},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
