Psychology

English

Noun

Psychology (countable and uncountable; plural psychologies)

1. (uncountable) The study of the human mind.
2. (uncountable) The study of human behavior.
3. (uncountable) The study of animal behavior.
4. (countable) The mental characteristics of a particular individual.

   1970: Mary M. Luke, A Crown for Elizabeth, page 8:

   • "For generations, historians have conjectured everything from a warped psychology to a deformed body as accounting for Elizabeth's preferred spinsterhood..."

   1969: Victor Alba, The Latin Americans, page 42:

   • "In the United States, the psychology of a laborer, a farmer, a businessman does not differ in any important respect."

Related terms

• psychologist
• psychiatry
• psychiatrist
• parapsychology
• psychotherapy
• psyche
• psyched up

Verbs for Psychology

apply—; approve—; delve into—; digest—; dominate—of; employ—; endorse—; illustrate—; involve—; lack—; practise—; — aids; —appreciates; —comprehends; —conceives; —copes with; —evolves; —fathoms; —meditates; —realizes; —studies; —understands.

Thesaurus

affect, affectivity, anatomy, anthropography, anthropologist, anthropology, anthropometry, attitude, behavior, behavioral science, constitution, craniology, craniometry, demography, emotion, emotions, emotivity, ethnography, ethnologist, ethnology, feeling, feeling tone, feelings, human ecology, human geography, mental attitude, nature, opinion, position, posture, psyche, rationale, reasoning, science of man, sentiment, sociologist, sociology, stance, thinking, way of thinking

Etymology

From French psychologie < Latin psychologia < Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhē, “soul”) + -logia (“study of”).

Pronunciation

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Translations

study of the human mind

Arabic: سيكولوجيا (ar) (saykuuluujiyyaa) f., علم النفس (ar) (`ilm al-nafs) m. Armenian: հոգեբանություն (hy) (hogebanut’yun) Azeri: psixologiya (az) Chinese: Mandarin: 心理學 (cmn), 心理学 (cmn) (xīnlǐxué) Chuvash: психологи (psixologi) Czech: psychologie (cs) f. Dutch: psychologie (nl) f. Esperanto: psikologio (eo) Finnish: psykologia (fi) French: psychologie (fr) f. German: Psychologie (de) f. Greek: ψυχολογία (el) (psychología) f. Hebrew: פְּסִיכוֹלוֹגְיָה (he) (psikhologya) f. Hindi: मनोविज्ञान (hi) (manovigyaan) Hungarian: pszichológia (hu)

Japanese: 心理学 (ja) (しんりがく, shinrigaku), サイコロジー (ja) (saikorojī) Kazakh: психология (kk) (psixologija) Kyrgyz: психология (ky) (psixologija) Macedonian: психологија (mk) (psihológija) f. Navajo: ániʼ dóó ntsékees naalkaah Persian: روان‌شناسی (fa) (ravân-shenâsi) Polish: psychologia (pl) f. Romanian: psihologie (ro) f. Russian: психология (ru) (psixológija) f. Scots: psychology Scottish Gaelic: eòlas-inntinn (gd) m. Southern Zazaki: psikoloci Tatar: психология (tt) (psixologija) Turkish: psikoloji (tr) Yakut: психология (psixologija)

the study of the human behavior

Arabic: سيكولوجيا (ar) (saykuuluujiyyaa) f., علم النفس (ar) (`ilm al-nafs) m. Armenian: հոգեբանություն (hy) (hogebanut’yun) Azeri: psixologiya (az) Chinese: Mandarin: 心理學 (cmn), 心理学 (cmn) (xīnlǐxué) Czech: psychologie (cs) f. Dutch: psychologie (nl) f. Finnish: psykologia (fi) French: psychologie (fr) f. German: Psychologie (de) f.

Greek: ψυχολογία (el) (psychología) f. Hungarian: pszichológia (hu) Japanese: 心理学 (ja) (しんりがく, shinrigaku), サイコロジー (ja) (saikorojī) Macedonian: психологија (mk) (psihológija) f. Navajo: ániʼ dóó ntsékees naalkaah Persian: روان‌شناسی (fa) (ravân-shenâsi) Russian: психология (ru) (psixológija) f. Scots: psychology Scottish Gaelic: eòlas-inntinn (gd) m. Turkish: psikoloji (tr)

the study of animal behavior

Armenian: հոգեբանություն (hy) (hogebanut’yun) Azeri: psixologiya (az) Czech: psychologie (cs) f. Dutch: psychologie (nl) f. Finnish: psykologia (fi) French: psychologie (fr) f.

German: Psychologie (de) f. Greek: ψυχολογία (el) (psixoloγía) Scots: psychology Scottish Gaelic: eòlas-inntinn (gd) m. Turkish: psikoloji (tr)

the mental characteristics of a particular individual

Armenian: հոգեբանություն (hy) (hogebanut’yun) Azeri: psixologiya (az) Czech: psychologie (cs) f. Dutch: psychologie (nl) f. Finnish: mielenlaatu (fi) French: psychologie (fr) f. German: Psychologie (de) f.

Greek: ψυχολογία (el) (psixoloγía) Macedonian: психологија (mk) (psihológija) f. Russian: психология (ru) (psixológija) f. Scots: psychology Spanish: psicología (es) f. Turkish: psikoloji (tr)

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Albanian: psikologjia Basque: psikologia Bulgarian: психология (psihologija) f. Catalan: psicologia f. Dutch: zielkunde (nl) f. Esperanto psikologio Hebrew: פסיכולוגיה (psikologia) f.

Italian: psicologia f. Korean: 심리학 (simnihak) Latin: psychologia f. Latvian: psiholoģija f. Portuguese: psicologia f. Romanian: psihologie Slovak: psychológia f. Swedish: psykologi Telugu: మనస్తత్వ శాస్త్రము (manastatva Saastramu) Thai: จิตวิทยา (th) (jìt wíttáyaa) Turkish: psikoloji

External links

• Psychology in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Psychology in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911