Psychic vs Physic - What's the difference?
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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).
Relating to the abilities of a psychic.
Relating to the psyche.
* 1967 , , The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise
(countable) A medicine or drug, especially a cathartic or purgative.
(uncountable) The art or profession of healing disease; medicine.
(obsolete) A physician.
To cure or heal; to treat or administer medicine, especially to purge.
As nouns the difference between psychic and physic
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 physic is a medicine or drug, especially a cathartic or purgative.As adjectives the difference between psychic and physic
is that psychic is relating to the abilities of a psychic while physic is relating to or concerning existent materials; physical.As a verb physic is
to cure or heal; to treat or administer medicine, especially to purge.psychic
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(wikipedia psychic)Noun
(en noun)References
Adjective
(en adjective)- You must be psychic - I was just about to say that.
- She is a psychic person - she hears messages from beyond.
- A pathological process called 'psychiatrosis' may well be found, by the same methods, to be a delineable entity, with somatic correlates, and psychic mechanisms
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Alternative forms
* physick (obsolete)Noun
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