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losing a loved one can have physical repercussions. 2<br />

psychical, extrasensory, supernatural, occult, magical,<br />

telepathic, telekinetic, preternatural, spiritualistic,<br />

unearthly, extramundane, supermundane: Many psychic phenomena<br />

have never been satisfactorily explained.<br />

--n. 3 medium, spiritualist, clairvoyant, mind-reader,<br />

telepathist, seer, seeress, crystal-gazer, soothsayer,<br />

astrologer, fortune-teller, prophet, prophetess, sibyl: We were<br />

disturbed to learn that our political leaders consulted<br />

psychics.<br />

psychological<br />

adj. mental, intellectual, cerebral, cognitive, psychic(al),<br />

spiritual, subjective, subconscious, unconscious, subliminal,<br />

psychogenic; philosophic(al): He has plenty of money, so there<br />

must be psychological reasons for his stealing.<br />

psychology<br />

n. (mental) make-up, constitution, attitude, behaviour, thought<br />

processes, thinking, psyche, nature, feeling(s), emotion(s),<br />

rationale, reasoning: I cannot understand the psychology of<br />

fascism.<br />

psychotic adj. 1 mad, insane, psychopathic, deranged, demented, lunatic,<br />

paranoiac or paranoid, abnormal, unbalanced, (mentally) ill or<br />

esp. US sick, disturbed, non compos mentis, of unsound mind,<br />

exceptional, certifiable, daft, unhinged, raving, Slang crazy,<br />

nuts, nutty, loony or looney or luny, off one's rocker or<br />

trolley or chump or head, cracked, crack-brained, mental, out to<br />

lunch, batty, bats, having bats in one's belfry, having a screw<br />

loose, not all there, touched (in the head), bonkers: The<br />

doctors diagnosed him as psychotic and insisted he be<br />

hospitalized.<br />

--n. 2 madman, madwoman, maniac, psychopath, lunatic, paranoid<br />

or paranoiac, schizophrenic, bedlamite, Slang nut, nutter,<br />

screwball, crackpot, crazy, loony or looney or luny, schizo, US<br />

kook: How many psychotics do you think are wandering about<br />

loose?<br />

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