psychology
pronunciation
How to pronounce psychology in British English:
UK [saɪˈkɒlədʒi]
How to pronounce psychology in American English:
US [saɪˈkɑːlədʒi]
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- Noun:
- the science of mental life
Word Origin
- psychology (n.)
- 1650s, "study of the soul," from Modern Latin psychologia, probably coined mid-16c. in Germany by Melanchthon from Latinized form of Greek psykhe- "breath, spirit, soul" (see psyche) + logia "study of" (see -logy). Meaning "study of the mind" first recorded 1748, from Christian Wolff's "Psychologia empirica" (1732); main modern behavioral sense is from early 1890s.
Example
- 1. Management gurus are also discovering the joys of psychology .
- 2. But market psychology is also playing its part .
- 3. How does their psychology compare ?
- 4. So what 's the positive psychology point ?
- 5. Psychology depicts love as a cognitive and social phenomenon .