/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-) ]