Definitions | psychology |
| noun (psychologies, -)
- (uncountable) The study of the human mind.
- (uncountable) The study of the human behavior.
- (uncountable) The study of animal behavior.
- (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 to a deformed body as accounting for Elizabeth's preferred spinsterhood..."
- 1969: Victor Alba, The Latin Americans, page 42:
- "In the United States, the of a laborer, a farmer, a businessman does not differ in any important respect."
Translations: - Dutch: zielkunde(nl, psychologie}}, {{t-, nl)f
- Esperanto psikologio
- French: psychologie
- German: Psychologie
- Italian: psicologia
- Spanish: psicología
Etymology: (term, psychologie, lang=fr) < (term, psychologia, lang=la) < Ancient Greek (term, sc=polytonic, , lang=grc, tr=suchÄ, , soul) and (term, sc=polytonic, -, tr=-logia, , study of, lang=grc)
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