| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | psy·che |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  s  k |
| NOUN: | 1. The spirit or soul. 2. Psychiatry The mind functioning as the center of thought, emotion, and behavior and consciously or unconsciously adjusting or mediating the body's responses to the social and physical environment. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin ps ch, from Greek ps kh, soul. See bhes- in Appendix I.
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