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psychological (adj.)[psychological 词源字典]: 1680s; see psychology + -ical. Related: Psychologically. Psychological warfare recorded from 1940. Psychological moment was in vogue from 1871, from French moment psychologique "moment of immediate expectation of something about to happen."
The original German phrase, misinterpreted by the French & imported together with its false sense into English, meant the psychic factor, the mental effect, the influence exerted by a state of mind, & not a point of time at all, das Moment in German corresponding to our momentum, not our moment. [Fowler]
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psychologist (n.): 1727; see psychology + -ist.
psychology (n.): 1650s, "study of the soul," from Modern Latin psychologia, probably coined mid-16c. in Germany by Melanchthon from Latinized form of Greek psykhe- "breath, spirit, soul" (see psyche) + logia "study of" (see -logy). Meaning "study of the mind" first recorded 1748, from Christian Wolff's "Psychologia empirica" (1732); main modern behavioral sense is from early 1890s.
psychometric (adj.): also psycho-metric, 1854, from psychometry (1854), the alleged power of reading the history of an object by handling it, + -ic. In reference to the measurement of the duration of mental states, from 1879, from psycho- + -metric.
psychometrics (n.): "science of measuring mental processes," 1917, from psychometric; also see -ics.
psychomotor (adj.): also psycho-motor, 1873, from psycho- + motor (adj.).
psychopath (n.): 1885, in the criminal psychology sense, a back-formation from psychopathic.
The Daily Telegraph had, the other day, a long article commenting on a Russian woman who had murdered a little girl. A Dr. Balinsky prevailed upon the jury to give a verdict of acquittal, because she was a "psychopath." The Daily Telegraph regards this term as a new coinage, but it has been long known amongst Spiritualists, yet in another sense. ["The Medium and Daybreak," Jan. 16, 1885]
The case alluded to, and the means of acquittal, were briefly notorious in England and brought the word into currency in the modern sense.
psychopathic (adj.): 1847, from psychopathy on model of German psychopatisch, from Greek psykhe- "mind" (see psyche) + pathos "suffering" (see pathos).
psychopathology (n.): 1847, from psycho- + pathology, on model of German psychopathologie.
psychopathy (n.): 1847, from psycho- + -pathy, on model of German psychopathie.
psychopharmacology (n.): also psycho-pharmacology, 1919, from psycho- + pharmacology. Related: Psychopharmacological.
psychopomp (n.): 1835, from Greek psykhopompos "spirit-guide," a term applied to Charon, Hermes Trismegistos, Apollo; from psykhe (see psyche) + pompos "guide, conductor."
psychosexual (adj.): also psycho-sexual, 1891, from psycho- + sexual. Related: Psychosexually.
psychosis (n.): 1847, "mental derangement," Modern Latin, from Greek psykhe- "mind" (see psyche) + -osis "abnormal condition." Greek psykhosis meant "a giving of life; animation; principle of life."
psychosocial (adj.): also psycho-social, 1891, from psycho- + social (adj.).
psychosomatic (adj.): 1847, "pertaining to the relation between mind and body," from Greek psykhe- "mind" (see psyche) + somatikos, from soma (genitive somatos) "body" (see somato-). Applied from 1938 to physical disorders with psychological causes. Etymologically it could as easily apply to emotional disorders with physical causes, but it is rarely used as such.
psychotherapist (n.): 1894, from psychotherapy + -ist.
psychotherapy (n.): 1892 in modern sense, from psycho- + therapy, in model of French psychothérapie (1889). In early use also of hypnotism. Related: Psychotherapeutic.
psychotic (adj.): 1889, coined from psychosis, on the model of neurotic/neurosis, from Greek psykhe- "mind, soul" (see psyche).
psychotic (n.): "a psychotic person," 1901, from psychotic (adj.).