Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: psychic
IPA transcription: [s'aɪkɪk]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: psychic
    Meaning: a person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception
Usage examples
  • It's wonderful that you're so strongly psychic, too."
  • "You're either psychic or the biggest wolf in the known universe, and I know you aren't a wolf.
  • The unfulfilled wish, to which he reacts by means of the dream, is the psychic sleep-disturbing stimulus for the child.
  • Do you dare under these circumstances to break a lance for the absence of evil from the psychic constitution of mankind?
  • If you hadn't been as psychic as I am, you'd've jumped clear out into subspace when a perfectly strange girl attacked you."
  • Bobby and I let our back hair down long ago--we were both tremendously surprised to know that both you boys are just as strongly psychic as we are.
  • The pleasure from alcoholic liquor may at the moment outweigh the cost in money, but a diseased appetite forbids any reckoning of the vast psychic cost that follows.
  • The dream, as a reaction to the psychic stimulus, must have the value of a release of this stimulus which results in its elimination and in the continuation of sleep.
  • Assuming that there are unconscious tendencies in the psychic life, nothing is proved by the ability of the subject to show that their opposites dominate his conscious life.
  • Either the dream is no psychic phenomenon after all, or there is no such thing as unconscious mental activity in the normal condition, or our technique has a gap in it somewhere.