psychology
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French psychologie, from Renaissance Latin psychologia, from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul”) + -λογία (-logía, “study of”), equivalent to psycho- + -logy. The Latin term is believed by some to have been coined in a lost treatise by Croatian humanist Marko Marulić (1450–1524), but this is disputed by other scholars; it is first attested in the 1570s, at which time it was apparently already current, and may be a Hellenization of the established expression dē animā (“on the soul”) in titles.[1]
PronunciationEdit
- (General American) enPR: sī-kŏlʹə-jē, IPA(key): /saɪˈkɑləd͡ʒi/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /saɪˈkɒləd͡ʒɪ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒləd͡ʒi
- Hyphenation: psy‧chol‧o‧gy
NounEdit
psychology (countable and uncountable, plural psychologies)
- (uncountable) The study of the human mind.
- (uncountable) The study of human or animal behavior.
- (uncountable, chiefly historical) The study of the soul.
- 2010, Harold Tarrant, “Platonism before Plotinus”, in Lloyd P. Gerson, editor, The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity, volume 1, →ISBN:
- (countable) The mental, emotional, and behavioral characteristics pertaining to a specified person, group, or activity.
- 1970, Mary M. Luke, A Crown for Elizabeth, page 8:
- For generations, historians have conjectured everything from a warped psychology to a deformed body as accounting for Elizabeth's preferred spinsterhood...
- 1969, Victor Alba, The Latin Americans, page 42:
- In the United States, the psychology of a laborer, a farmer, a businessman does not differ in any important respect.
HolonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
- abnormal psychology
- antipsychology
- behavioral psychology
- behavioural psychology
- biological psychology
- biopsychology
- chronopsychology
- clinical psychology
- cognitive psychology
- criminal psychology
- crowd psychology
- cyberpsychology
- depth psychology
- depth-psychology
- differential psychology
- ecopsychology
- ethnopsychology
- evolutionary psychology
- geropsychology
- metapsychology
- morphopsychology
- neuropsychology
- orthopsychology
- paedopsychology
- paidopsychology
- palaeopsychology
- parapsychology
- pedopsychology
- psychologism
- psychologist
- psychologylike
- reverse psychology
- robopsychology
- social psychology
- sociopsychology
- telepsychology
- xenopsychology
- zoopsychology
- zoöpsychology
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
study of the human mind
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the study of human or animal behavior
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the mental characteristics of a particular individual
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ReferencesEdit
- ^ Vidal, Fernando (2011) The Sciences of the Soul: The Early Modern Origins of Psychology, University of Chicago Press, pages 25–26
Further readingEdit
- psychology in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- psychology in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911