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Webster 1913 Edition


Psychology

Psy-chol′o-gy

,
Noun.
pl.
Psychologies
.
[
Psycho-
+
-logy
: cf. F.
psychologie
. See
Psychical
.]
The science of the human soul; specifically, the systematic or scientific knowledge of the powers and functions of the human soul, so far as they are known by consciousness; a treatise on the human soul.
Psychology
, the science conversant about the phenomena of the mind, or conscious subject, or self.
Sir W. Hamilton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Psychology

PSYCHOL'OGY

,
Noun.
[Gr. soul, and discourse.] A discourse or treatise on the human soul; or the doctrine of the nature and properties of the soul.

Definition 2024


psychology

psychology

English

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psychology (countable and uncountable, plural psychologies)

  1. (uncountable) The study of the human mind.
  2. (uncountable) The study of human behavior.
  3. (uncountable) The study of animal behavior.
  4. (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.

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