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FromFrenchpsychologie, fromRenaissance Latinpsychologia, fromAncient Greekψυχή(psukhḗ,“soul”) +-λογία(-logía,“study of”), equivalent topsycho- +‎-logy. The Latin term is believed by some to have been coined in a lost treatise by Croatian humanistMarko Marulić (1450–1524), but this is disputed by other scholars. It is first attested in the 1570s, at which time it was apparently already current, and may be a Hellenization of the established expressiondēanimā(“on the soul”) in titles.[1]

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psychology (countable anduncountable,pluralpsychologies)

  2. (uncountable) Thestudy of thehumanmind.
    • 2023, Friedrich Nietzsche,Twilight of the Idols: Bilingual English & German Edition, Newcomb Livraria Press,→ISBN, page 9:
      Idleness is the beginning of allpsychology .
  3. (uncountable) The study of human oranimalbehavior.
  4. (uncountable, chiefly historical) The study of thesoul.
    • 2010, Harold Tarrant, “Platonism before Plotinus”, inLloyd P. Gerson, editor,The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity, volume 1,→ISBN:
      Alcinous inDidascalius chapter 23 uses the three physical locations of the human soul fromTimaeus 69c–72c[…] to lead into a dedicated discussion ofpsychology.
  5. (countable) The mental, emotional, and behavioral characteristics pertaining to a specified person, group, or activity.
    • 1970, Mary M. Luke,A Crown for Elizabeth, page 8:
      For generations, historians have conjectured everything from a warpedpsychology to a deformed body as accounting for Elizabeth's preferred spinsterhood...
    • 1969, Victor Alba,The Latin Americans, page42:
      In the United States, thepsychology of a laborer, a farmer, a businessman does not differ in any important respect.

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Translations

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study of the human mind
the study of human or animal behavior
the mental characteristics of a particular individual
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References

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  1. ^Vidal, Fernando (2011),The Sciences of the Soul: The Early Modern Origins of Psychology, University of Chicago Press,pages25–26

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