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Etymology
F. term|psychologie|langfr < L. term|psychologia|langla < AGr. term|scpolytonic|���ή|langgrc|trsuch�||soul and term|scpolytonic|-λογία|tr-logia||study of|langgrc

Pronunciation
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Noun
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1. uncountable The study of the human mind.
2. uncountable The study of the human behavior.
3. uncountable The study of animal behavior.
4. countable The mental characteristics of a particular individual.

#: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."

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parapsychology
psychiatrist
psychologist
psychotherapy
psyched up

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Albania psikologjia
Arabic: ARchar|ع�� ا���س (�ilmu n-nafs) m
Basque: psikologia
Bulgarian: п�и�ологи� (psihologija) f
Catalan: psicologia f
Chinese: ��学 (xīnl�xué)
Czech: psychologie f
Dutch: t-|nl|psychologie, t-|nl|zielkunde|f
Esperanto psikologio
Finnish: psykologia
French: psychologie f
German: Psychologie f
Greek: ���ολογία f
Hebrew: פס�������� (psikologia) f
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Italian: psicologia f
Japanese: ��学�(�����, shinrigaku)
Korean: �리� (simnihak)
Latin: psychologia f
Latvian: psiholoģija f
Portuguese: psicologia f
Romanian: psihologie
Russian: п�и�ологи� (psixológija) f
Scottish Gaelic: eòlas-inntinn m
Scots: psychologie
Slovak: psychológia f
Spanish: psicología f
Swedish: psykologi
Telugu: మనస�తత�వ శాస�త�రమ� (manastatva Saastramu)
Turkish: psikoloji
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Category:Social sciences

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