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psych | subjective |

As a noun psych

is psychology or psychiatry.

As a verb psych

is to put (someone) into a required psychological frame of mind (also psych up).

As an interjection psych

is (slang) indicating that one's preceding statement was false and that one has successfully fooled one's interlocutor also sike .

As an adjective subjective is

pertaining to subjects as opposed to objects (a subject'' is one who perceives or is aware; an ''object is the thing perceived or the thing that the subject is aware of).

psych

English

Alternative forms

* psyche

Noun

(en noun)
  • Psychology or psychiatry.
    • a psych class
  • A psychologist; a psychiatrist.
  • * 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 476:
    • She had attended a conference of psychs at which he had presided and they had taken a fancy to each other.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put (someone) into a required psychological frame of mind (also psych up).
  • To intimidate (someone) emotionally or using psychology (also psych out).
  • (informal) To treat (someone) using psychoanalysis.

    • Derived terms

    * psych out * psych up

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (slang) Indicating that one's preceding statement was false and that one has successfully fooled one's interlocutor. Also sike .

    • Related terms

    * psych- * psycho- * psyche

    subjective

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to subjects as opposed to objects (A subject'' is one who perceives or is aware; an ''object is the thing perceived or the thing that the subject is aware of.)
  • Formed, as in opinions, based upon a person's feelings or intuition, not upon observation or reasoning; coming more from within the observer than from observations of the external environment.
  • Resulting from or pertaining to personal mindsets or experience, arising from perceptive mental conditions within the brain and not necessarily or directly from external stimuli.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.
  • Lacking in reality or substance.
  • As used by (Carl Jung), the innate worldview orientation of the introverted personality types.
  • (philosophy, psychology) Experienced by a person mentally and not directly verifiable by others.

    • Antonyms

    * objective