Soul vs Psyche - What's the difference?
soul | psyche |
(religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality. Often believed to live on after the person's death.
* 1836 , (Hans Christian Andersen) (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872), (The Little Mermaid)
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The spirit or essence of anything.
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, title= Life, energy, vigor.
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(music) Soul music.
A person, especially as one among many.
An individual life.
The human soul, mind, or spirit.
(chiefly psychology) The human mind as the central force in thought, emotion, and behavior of an individual.
psychology
To put (someone) into a required psychological frame of mind.
To intimidate (someone) emotionally using psychology.
(informal) To treat (someone) using psychoanalysis.
As nouns the difference between soul and psyche
is that soul is the spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality. Often believed to live on after the person's death while psyche is the human soul, mind, or spirit.As verbs the difference between soul and psyche
is that soul is to endue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind while psyche is to put (someone) into a required psychological frame of mind.As an abbreviation psyche is
psychology.As an interjection psyche is
Used abruptly after a sentence to indicate that the speaker is only joking.As a proper noun Psyche is
the personification of the soul. Originally a mortal princess who later married Eros/Cupid, (the god of love), was deified, and bore him a daughter, Hedone/Voluptas.soul
English
(wikipedia soul)Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) (the Scandinavian forms are borrowings from the Old English).Alternative forms
* sowl (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- "Among the daughters of the air," answered one of them. "A mermaid has not an immortal soul', nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny. But the daughters of the air, although they do not possess an immortal ' soul , can, by their good deeds, procure one for themselves.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=From another point of view, it was a place without a soul . The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.}}
- That he wants algebra he must confess; / But not a soul to give our arms success.
- Fifty souls were lost when the ship sank.