metapsychic

English

Etymology

From meta- +‎ psychic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɛtəˈsaɪkɪk/

Adjective

metapsychic (not comparable)

1. Being or pertaining to something (for example, telepathy) that is outside the realm of orthodox psychology, or (more broadly) beyond scientifically-explainable psychic (mental) abilities (compare metaphysical, supernatural).
   • 1911, Popular Science Monthly and World's Advance, page 371:

     REALITY AND TRUTH by Professor T. D. A. [...] Reality may be conceived of as having three aspects, the know- able or scientific, the imaginable or metaphysic, and the unimaginable or metapsychic.

   • 1959, New Problems in Medical Ethics:

     Research in these matters is of special concern for a Christian, because metapsychic phenomena have often been lumped together with Christian miracles by those who have studied them.

   • 2017, Charles Richet, Thirty Years of Psychical Research, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 52:

     Such a development would be a metapsychic phenomenon. On my asking Stella for the name of one of the women who tended my infancy, she replied, “Melanie.” I was not thinking of Melanie, and I am most positively sure that this name [...] has never been uttered by me. In this case I am obliged to infer a metapsychic phenomenon.

Related terms

• metapsychology