parapsychology

parapsychology

English

Etymology

From para- (after paranormal) + psychology.

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌpɛɹəˌsaɪˈkɑlədʒi/

Noun

parapsychology (countable and uncountable, plural parapsychologies)

1. The study of alleged paranormal phenomena; psychic or occult phenomena, such as telepathy and ghosts.

Translations

study of that which cannot yet be explained

Albanian: parapsikologjia f Basque: parapsikologia (eu) Belarusian: парапсіхалогія f (parapsixalóhija) Catalan: parapsicologia f Chinese: Mandarin: 超心理學／超心理学 (chāoxīnlǐxué), 心靈學／心灵学 (xīnlíngxué), 靈學／灵学 (zh) (língxué), 通靈學／通灵学 (tōnglíngxué) Czech: parapsychologie f Danish: parapsykologi c Dutch: parapsychologie (nl) f Esperanto: parapsiĥologio, parapsikologio Estonian: parapsühholoogia Finnish: parapsykologia (fi) French: parapsychologie (fr) f German: Parapsychologie (de) f Greek: παραψυχολογία (el) f (parapsychología) Hungarian: parapszichológia (hu) Indonesian: parapsikologi (id) Italian: parapsicologia (it) f, metapsichica f Japanese: 超心理学 (ja) (ちょうしんりがく, chōshinrigaku) Khmer: អធិចិត្តវិទ្យា (ak thi chit vi tyea) Korean: 초심리학(超心理學) (chosimnihak) Latvian: parapsiholoģija Lithuanian: parapsichologija f Macedonian: парапсихологија (parapsihologija) Norwegian: parapsykologi (no) Polish: parapsychologia (pl) f Portuguese: parapsicologia f, pesquisa psi f Romanian: parapsihologie (ro) f Russian: парапсихоло́гия (ru) f (parapsixológija) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: парапсихологија f Roman: parapsihologija (sh) f Slovak: parapsychológia f Spanish: parapsicología (es) f Swedish: parapsykologi (sv) c Turkish: parapsikoloji (tr) Ukrainian: парапсихологія (parapsyxolohija) Yiddish: פּאַראַפּסיכאָלאָגיע‎ f (parapsikhologye)

See also

• metaphysics
• paranormal