Physical vs. Psychical

By Jaxson

  • Physical (adjective)

    Having to do with the body.

    “Are you feeling any physical effects?”

  • Physical (adjective)

    Having to do with the material world.

    “It’s not so much a physical place as a state of mind.”

  • Physical (adjective)

    Involving bodily force.

    “This team plays a very physical game, so watch out.”

  • Physical (adjective)

    Having to do with physics.

    “The substance has a number of interesting physical properties.”

  • Physical (adjective)

    Relating to physic, or medicine; medicinal; curative; also, cathartic; purgative.

  • Physical (noun)

    Physical examination.

    “How long has it been since your last physical?”

    “checkup|check-up”

  • Psychical (adjective)

    Performed by or pertaining to the mind or spirit; mental, psychic. from 17th c.

  • Psychical (adjective)

    Pertaining to the animal nature of man, as opposed to the spirit. from 18th c.

  • Psychical (adjective)

    Outside the realm of the physical; supernatural, psychic. from 19th c.

Wiktionary
  • Physical (adjective)

    relating to the body as opposed to the mind

    “a range of physical and mental challenges”

  • Physical (adjective)

    involving bodily contact or activity

    “less physical sports such as bowls”

    “a physical relationship”

  • Physical (adjective)

    relating to things perceived through the senses as opposed to the mind; tangible or concrete

    “the physical world”

  • Physical (adjective)

    relating to physics or the operation of natural forces generally

    “physical laws”

  • Physical (noun)

    a medical examination to determine a person’s bodily fitness

    “at fifty-something, each year’s physical was a kind of lottery”

  • Physical (noun)

    stocks held in actual commodities for immediate exchange, for example as opposed to futures

    “the exchange of futures for physicals”

  • Psychical (adjective)

    another term for psychic (sense 1 of the adjective)

Oxford Dictionary

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