Psyche

English

Noun

Psyche (plural Psyches)

1. The human soul, mind, or spirit.
2. (chiefly psychology) The human mind as the central force in thought, emotion, and behavior of an individual.

Abbreviation

psyche

1. psychology

Interjection

Psyche

1. Used abruptly after a sentence to indicate that the speaker is only joking.

Verb

Psyche (third-person singular simple present Psyches, present participle psyching, simple past and past participle psyched)

1. (transitive) To put (someone) into a required psychological frame of mind.
2. (transitive) To intimidate (someone) emotionally using psychology.
3. (transitive, informal) To treat (someone) using psychoanalysis.

Thesaurus

Vernunft, anima, anima humana, animus, atman, ba, brain, brains, breath, breath of life, buddhi, coconscious, collective unconscious, conception, conscience, conscious self, death instinct, discourse of reason, discursive reason, divine breath, divine spark, ego, ego ideal, ego-id conflict, elan vital, esprit, ethical self, foreconscious, gray matter, head, headpiece, heart, id, inner man, intellect, intellection, intellectual faculty, intelligence, jiva, jivatma, khu, libidinal energy, libido, manes, mens, mental capacity, mentality, mind, motive force, nephesh, nous, persona, personality, pleasure principle, pneuma, power of reason, preconscious, primitive self, psychic apparatus, purusha, racial unconscious, ratio, rationality, reason, reasoning, reasoning faculty, ruach, self, shade, shadow, smarts, soul, spirit, spiritual being, spiritus, subconscious, subconscious mind, subliminal, subliminal self, submerged mind, superego, the self, unconscious, unconscious mind, understanding, vital force, vital impulse

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsaɪ.ki/

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsaɪk/
• Rhymes: -aɪk