PSYCHE


Meaning of PSYCHE in English

/suy"kee/ , n.

1. Class. Myth. a personification of the soul, which in the form of a beautiful girl was loved by Eros.

2. ( l.c. ) the human soul, spirit, or mind.

3. ( l.c. ) Psychol., Psychoanal. the mental or psychological structure of a person, esp. as a motive force.

4. Neoplatonism. the second emanation of the One, regarded as a universal consciousness and as the animating principle of the world.

5. a female given name.

[ 1650-60 for def. 2; psyche psyché lit., breath, deriv. of psýchein to breathe, blow, hence, live (see PSYCHO-) ]

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