psychic

Meanings

Noun

• A person who possesses, or appears to possess, extra-sensory abilities such as precognition, clairvoyance and telepathy, or who appears to be susceptible to paranormal or supernatural influences.
• A person who supposedly contacts the dead; a medium.
• In gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man the second type; a person focused on intellectual reality (the other two being hylic and pneumatic).

Adjective

• Relating to or having the abilities of a psychic.
• Relating to the psyche or mind, or to mental activity in general.

Origin

• From Ancient Greek ψυχικός ("relative to the soul, spirit, mind"). Earlier referred to as "psychical"; or from Ancient Greek ψυχή. First appeared (as substantive) 1871 and first records 1895.