psychology
Plural: psychologies
Noun
- the science of mental life
- The study of the human mind.
- The study of human or animal behavior.
- The study of the soul.
- The mental, emotional, and behavioral characteristics pertaining to a specified person, group, or activity.
Origin / Etymology
From French psychologie, from Renaissance Latin psychologia, from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul”) + -λογία (-logía, “study of”), equivalent to psycho- + -logy. The Latin term is believed by some to have been coined in a lost treatise by Croatian humanist Marko Marulić (1450–1524), but this is disputed by other scholars. It is first attested in the 1570s, at which time it was apparently already current, and may be a Hellenization of the established expression dē animā (“on the soul”) in titles.
Synonyms
psychological science, psychology
Scrabble Score: 24
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