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Psychic vs Kook - What's the difference?

psychic | kook |

As nouns the difference between psychic and kook

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 kook is kitchen.

As an adjective psychic

is relating to the abilities of a psychic.

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

    kook

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, chiefly, US) An eccentric, strange or crazy person; a weirdo.
  • A board sport participant who has poor style or skill.
  • Derived terms

    * kookology * kooky

    Anagrams

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