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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to psychology.
  • adjective Of, relating to, or arising from the mind or emotions.
  • adjective Influencing or intended to influence the mind or emotions.
  • adjective Of or being any of certain primary colors whose mixture may be subjectively conceived as producing other colors.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to psychology; of the nature of psychology; of or pertaining to the mind as the subject of psychology.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to psychology.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective mental or emotional as opposed to physical in nature
  • adjective of or relating to or determined by psychology

Etymologies

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From psychology +‎ -ical.

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