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Psychic vs Cerebral - What's the difference?

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Psychic is a synonym of cerebral.


As nouns the difference between psychic and cerebral

is that psychic is a person who possesses, or appears to possess, extra-sensory abilities such as precognition, clairvoyance and telepathy, or who appears to be susceptible to paranormal or supernatural influence while cerebral is a cerebral person.

As adjectives the difference between psychic and cerebral

is that psychic is relating to the abilities of a psychic while cerebral is cerebral.

psychic

English

(wikipedia psychic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who possesses, or appears to possess, extra-sensory abilities such as precognition, clairvoyance and telepathy, or who appears to be susceptible to paranormal or supernatural influence.
  • A person who supposedly contacts the dead. A medium.
  • (gnosticism) In gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man the second type; a person focused on intellectual reality (the other two being hylic and pneumatic).

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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Relating to the abilities of a psychic.
    • You must be psychic - I was just about to say that.
    She is a psychic person - she hears messages from beyond.
  • Relating to the psyche.
  • * 1967 , , The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise
    • A pathological process called 'psychiatrosis' may well be found, by the same methods, to be a delineable entity, with somatic correlates, and psychic mechanisms

    Related terms

    * psychical * psychological

    cerebral

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (anatomy, medicine) Of, or relating to the brain or cerebral cortex of the brain.
  • Intellectual rather than emotional.
  • (linguistics, obsolete) Retroflex.

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