adv
Meaning 1
In a psychological sense.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- The new novel is a psychologically complex thriller.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
psychologically
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adv
Meaning 2
Employing psychology.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- The patient's behaviour was interpreted psychologically.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 3
with regard to psychology
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- war that caught them in its toils either psychologically or physically
- the event was very damaging to the child psychologically
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 4
in terms of psychology
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- classify poetry psychologically
Meaning relationships
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History
Etymology
Etymology tree English psychology Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ic Proto-Indo-European *h2el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ical English -ical English psychological Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English psychologically From psychological + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Belarusian: псіхалагі́чна (psixalahíčna) — in a psychological manner
- Catalan: psicològicament — in a psychological manner
- Esperanto: anime — in a psychological manner
- Esperanto: psikologie — in a psychological manner
- Finnish: psykologisesti — in a psychological manner
- French: psychologiquement — in a psychological manner
- Galician: psicoloxicamente — in a psychological manner
- Georgian: ფსიქოლოგიურად (psikologiurad) — in a psychological manner
- German: psychologisch — in a psychological manner
- German: seelisch — in a psychological manner
- Italian: psicologicamente — in a psychological manner
- Polish: psychologicznie — in a psychological manner
- Portuguese: psicologicamente — in a psychological manner
- Russian: психологи́чески (psixologíčeski) — in a psychological manner
- Spanish: psicológicamente — in a psychological manner
- Turkish: psikolojik olarak — in a psychological manner
- Turkish: psikolojikman — in a psychological manner
- Turkish: tinbilimsel — in a psychological manner
- Ukrainian: психологі́чно (psyxolohíčno) — in a psychological manner
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