parapsychology

English

Etymology

From para- (“above, beyond; abnormal”) +‎ psychology.

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌpɛɹəˌsaɪˈkɑlədʒi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

parapsychology (countable and uncountable, plural parapsychologies)

1. The study of alleged paranormal phenomena; psychic or occult phenomena, such as telepathy and ghosts.

Translations

the study of that which cannot yet be explained

• Albanian: parapsikologjia f
• Basque: parapsikologia (eu)
• Belarusian: парапсіхалогія f (parapsixalóhija)
• Catalan: parapsicologia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 超心理學 / 超心理学 (chāoxīnlǐxué), 心靈學 / 心灵学 (xīnlíngxué), 靈學 / 灵学 (zh) (língxué), 通靈學 / 通灵学 (tōnglíngxué)

• Czech: parapsychologie f
• Danish: parapsykologi c
• Dutch: parapsychologie (nl) f
• Esperanto: parapsiĥologio, parapsikologio
• Estonian: parapsühholoogia
• Finnish: parapsykologia (fi)
• French: parapsychologie (fr) f
• German: Parapsychologie (de) f
• Greek: παραψυχολογία (el) f (parapsychología)
• Hungarian: parapszichológia (hu)
• Icelandic: parasálfræði
• Indonesian: parapsikologi (id)
• Italian: parapsicologia (it) f, metapsichica f
• Japanese: 超心理学 (ja) (ちょうしんりがく, chōshinrigaku)
• Khmer: អធិចិត្តវិទ្យា (ak thi chit vi tyea)
• Korean: 초심리학(超心理學) (chosimnihak)
• Latvian: parapsiholoģija
• Lithuanian: parapsichologija f
• Macedonian: парапсихологија (parapsihologija)
• Norwegian: parapsykologi (no)
• Polish: parapsychologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: parapsicologia f, pesquisa psi f
• Romanian: parapsihologie (ro) f
• Russian: парапсихоло́гия (ru) f (parapsixológija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: парапсихологија f

  Roman: parapsihologija (sh) f

• Slovak: parapsychológia f
• Spanish: parapsicología (es) f
• Swedish: parapsykologi (sv) c
• Turkish: parapsikoloji (tr)
• Ukrainian: парапсихологія (parapsyxolohija)
• Welsh: paraseicoleg f
• Yiddish: פּאַראַפּסיכאָלאָגיע f (parapsikhologye)

See also

• metaphysics
• paranormal

Further reading

• parapsychology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia