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Webster 1913 Edition
Psychology
Psy-chol′o-gy
,Noun.
pl.
Psychologies
. The science of the human soul; specifically, the systematic or scientific knowledge of the powers and functions of the human soul, so far as they are known by consciousness; a treatise on the human soul.
Psychology
, the science conversant about the phenomena of the mind, or conscious subject, or self. Sir W. Hamilton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Psychology
PSYCHOL'OGY
,Noun.
Definition 2024
psychology
psychology
English
Noun
psychology (countable and uncountable, plural psychologies)
- (uncountable) The study of the human mind.
- (uncountable) The study of human behavior.
- (uncountable) The study of animal behavior.
- (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.
- 1970, Mary M. Luke, A Crown for Elizabeth, page 8:
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study of the human mind
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the study of the human behavior
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the study of animal behavior
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the mental characteristics of a particular individual
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