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From French psychologie < Latin psychologia < Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhē), “‘soul’”) + -logia (“‘study of’”).

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Noun

Singular psychology

Plural countable and uncountable; plural psychologies

psychology (countable and uncountable; plural psychologies)

  1. (uncountable) The study of the human mind.
  2. (uncountable) The study of human behavior.
  3. (uncountable) The study of animal behavior.
  4. (countable) The mental characteristics of a particular individual.
    1970: Mary M. Luke, A Crown for Elizabeth, page 8:
    • "For generations, historians have conjectured everything from a warped psychology to a deformed body as accounting for Elizabeth's preferred spinsterhood..."
    1969: Victor Alba, The Latin Americans, page 42:
    • "In the United States, the psychology of a laborer, a farmer, a businessman does not differ in any important respect."

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