psychal

English

Etymology

psyche +‎ -al

Adjective

psychal (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Having to do with the psyche.
   • 1846, E. A. Poe, The Philosophy of Composition:

     It is needless to demonstrate that a poem is such only inasmuch as it intensely excites, by elevating the soul; and all intense excitements are, through a psychal necessity, brief.