psychology

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Etymology

From French psychologie, from Latin psychologia (coined by Marko Marulić from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhē, “soul”) + -logia (“study of”)).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /saɪˈkɑlədʒi/

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Noun

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.

Related terms

• psychologist
• psychiatry
• psychiatrist
• parapsychology
• psychotherapy
• psyche
• psyched up

Translations

study of the human mind

• Arabic: سيكولوجيا f (saykuuluujiyyaa), علم النفس m (`ilm al-nafs)
• Armenian: հոգեբանություն (hogebanutʿyun)
• Asturian: sicoloxía f
• Azeri: psixologiya
• Catalan: psicologia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心理學, 心理学 (zh) (xīnlǐxué)

• Chuvash: психологи (psihologi)
• Cornish: brysonieth f
• Czech: psychologie (cs) f
• Danish: psykologi
• Dutch: psychologie (nl) f, zielkunde (nl) f
• Esperanto: psikologio (eo)
• Finnish: psykologia (fi)
• French: psychologie (fr) f
• Galician: psicoloxía (gl) f
• German: Psychologie (de) f, (dated) Seelenkunde f
• Greek: ψυχολογία (el) f (psychología)
• Hebrew: פְּסִיכוֹלוֹגְיָה (he) f (psikhologya)
• Hindi: मनोविज्ञान (manovigyaan)
• Hungarian: pszichológia (hu)
• Icelandic: sálfræði f

• Japanese: 心理学 (ja) (しんりがく, shinrigaku), サイコロジー (saikorojī)
• Kazakh: психология (psïhologïya)
• Khmer: ចិត្តវិទ្យា (chetta vityie)
• Kyrgyz: психология (psihologiya)
• Latvian: psiholoģija f
• Macedonian: психологија f (psihológija)
• Malay: ilmu jiwa, psikologi
• Maori: mātauranga hinengaro
• Navajo: ániʼ dóó ntsékees naalkaah
• Norwegian: psykologi (no) m
• Persian: روان‌شناسی (ravân-shenâsi)
• Polish: psychologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: psicologia (pt) f
• Romanian: psihologie (ro) f
• Russian: психология (ru) f (psixológija)
• Scots: psychology
• Scottish Gaelic: eòlas-inntinn m
• Spanish: psicología (es) f
• Tagalog: sikolohiya
• Tatar: психология (psixologija)
• Turkish: ruh bilimi (tr)
• Volapük: lanav (vo)
• Welsh: seicoleg (cy) f
• Yakut: психология (psixologiya)
• Zazaki: (Southern Zazaki) psikoloci

the study of the human behavior

• Arabic: سيكولوجيا f (saykuuluujiyyaa), علم النفس m (`ilm al-nafs)
• Armenian: հոգեբանություն (hogebanutʿyun)
• Asturian: sicoloxía f
• Azeri: psixologiya
• Catalan: psicologia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心理學, 心理学 (zh) (xīnlǐxué)

• Cornish: brysonieth f
• Czech: psychologie (cs) f
• Dutch: psychologie (nl) f
• Finnish: psykologia (fi)
• French: psychologie (fr) f
• Galician: psicoloxía (gl) f

• German: Psychologie (de) f
• Greek: ψυχολογία (el) f (psychología)
• Hungarian: pszichológia (hu)
• Japanese: 心理学 (ja) (しんりがく, shinrigaku), サイコロジー (saikorojī)
• Latvian: psiholoģija f
• Macedonian: психологија f (psihológija)
• Malay: ilmu jiwa, psikologi
• Navajo: ániʼ dóó ntsékees naalkaah
• Norwegian: psykologi (no)
• Persian: روان‌شناسی (ravân-shenâsi)
• Russian: психология (ru) f (psixológija)
• Scots: psychology
• Scottish Gaelic: eòlas-inntinn m
• Turkish: ruh bilimi (tr)
• Welsh: seicoleg (cy) f

the study of animal behavior

• Armenian: հոգեբանություն (hogebanutʿyun)
• Azeri: psixologiya
• Czech: psychologie (cs) f
• Dutch: psychologie (nl) f
• Finnish: psykologia (fi)
• French: psychologie (fr) f

• German: Psychologie (de) f
• Greek: ψυχολογία (el) (psychología)
• Latvian: psiholoģija f
• Malay: ilmu jiwa, psikologi
• Norwegian: psykologi (no) m
• Scots: psychology
• Scottish Gaelic: eòlas-inntinn m
• Turkish: ruh bilimi (tr)

the mental characteristics of a particular individual

• Armenian: հոգեբանություն (hogebanutʿyun)
• Azeri: psixologiya
• Catalan: psicologia f
• Cornish: brysonieth f
• Czech: psychologie (cs) f
• Dutch: psychologie (nl) f
• Finnish: mielenlaatu
• French: psychologie (fr) f
• Galician: psicoloxía (gl) f

• German: Psychologie (de) f
• Greek: ψυχολογία (el) (psychología)
• Latvian: psiholoģija f
• Macedonian: психологија f (psihológija)
• Malay: ilmu jiwa, psikologi
• Norwegian: psykologi (no) m
• Russian: психология (ru) f (psixológija)
• Scots: psychology
• Spanish: psicología (es) f
• Turkish: psikoloji (tr)
• Welsh: seicoleg (cy) f

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Translations to be checked

• Albanian: psikologjia
• Basque: psikologia
• Bulgarian: психология (psihologija) f
• Dutch: zielkunde (nl) f
• Esperanto psikologio
• Hebrew: פסיכולוגיה (psikologia) f

• Italian: psicologia f
• Korean: 심리학 (simnihak)
• Latin: psychologia f
• Portuguese: psicologia f
• Romanian: psihologie
• Slovak: psychológia f
• Swedish: psykologi
• Telugu: మనస్తత్వ శాస్త్రము (manastatva Saastramu)
• Thai: จิตวิทยา (jìt wíttáyaa)
• Turkish: psikoloji

External links

• psychology in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• psychology in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911