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| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : sahy-kuh-loj-i-kuh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌsaɪ kəˈlɒdʒ ɪ kəl |
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Définition of psychological
Origin :- 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]
- adj concerning the mind
- This is the psychological moment to set your friends to work.
- Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
- In the cant of modern metaphysics, the moment was psychological.
- Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance
- Then he put me through a series of psychological test queries.
- Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings
- It is in this psychological domain more than in any other, that she will always triumph.
- Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
- He saw his way to a lovely little bit of psychological realism.
- Extract from : « Audrey Craven » by May Sinclair
- "Only not a physiological, but possibly a psychological one," remarked Arnfinn.
- Extract from : « Tales From Two Hemispheres » by Hjalmar Hjorth Boysen
- At this, the psychological moment, the order to open fire was given.
- Extract from : « Submarine Warfare of To-day » by Charles W. Domville-Fife
- How it can have satisfied an Italian statesman is a psychological riddle.
- Extract from : « England and Germany » by Emile Joseph Dillon
- Our inheritance from the pioneer is not only material but psychological.
- Extract from : « Higher Education and Business Standards » by Willard Eugene Hotchkiss
- That was impossible for psychological reasons, which I need not state here.
- Extract from : « The Secret Sharer » by Joseph Conrad
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