psychology
//saɪˈkɒl.ə.d͡ʒɪ//
formalForms
- Plural
- psychologies
Definitions
1.The study of the human mind.
- Idleness is the beginning of all psychology .
2.The study of human or animal behavior.
- My mother is a psychology teacher.
3.The mental, emotional, and behavioral characteristics pertaining to a specified person, group, or activity.
- In the United States, the psychology of a laborer, a farmer, a businessman does not differ in any important respect.
- For generations, historians have conjectured everything from a warped psychology to a deformed body as accounting for Elizabeth's preferred spinsterhood..
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3128
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From French psychologie, from Renaissance Latin psychologia, from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul”) + -λογία (-logía, “study of”), equivalent to psycho- + -logy.