Psychal

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having to do with the psyche. not-comparable, obsolete

    "It is needless to demonstrate that a poem is such only inasmuch as it intensely excites, by elevating the soul; and all intense excitements are, through a psychal necessity, brief."

Example

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"It is needless to demonstrate that a poem is such only inasmuch as it intensely excites, by elevating the soul; and all intense excitements are, through a psychal necessity, brief."

Etymology

From psyche + -al.

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