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Kinetic vs Psychic - What's the difference?

kinetic | psychic |

As adjectives the difference between kinetic and psychic

is that kinetic is of or relating to motion while psychic is relating to the abilities of a psychic.

As a noun 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.

kinetic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to motion
  • Of or relating to kinesis

    • Synonyms

    * active * animated * dynamic * seepy * vigorous

    Antonyms

    * lazy * logic * sluggish

    Derived terms

    * kinetic art * kinetic energy

    Related terms

    * cinema * kinesis * kinesthetic

    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).

    • References

    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