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Psychic vs Predictor - What's the difference?

psychic | predictor |

As nouns the difference between psychic and predictor

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 predictor is something that anticipates, predicts or foretells.

As an adjective psychic

is relating to the abilities of a psychic.

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

    predictor

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that anticipates, predicts or foretells.
  • :The rain fall in April is a predictor for the number of mosquitoes in May.
  • :The predictor in the traffic lights control circuit tries to figure out how fast to change the lights.