Home › Words › P › psychicistpsychicistpsychicist means someone who studies psychic behaviour or phenomena.EtymologyFrom psychic + -ist.nounSomeone who studies psychic behaviour or phenomena.e.g.“Other German psychiatrists deplored the speculative fantasies of such ‘psychicists’, which they associated with the anti-scientific tendencies of Romanticism […].” — 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 489:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.psychicism 75% match — The study of psychic ability. vs psychicist →parapsychologist 73% match — A person who studies parapsychology. vs psychicist →psychistic 68% match — Relating to psychism. vs psychicist →psychopathist 65% match — One who studies mental illness. vs psychicist →parapsychology 62% match — The study of alleged paranormal phenomena; psychic or occult phenomena, such as telepathy and ghosts. vs psychicist →psychicly 62% match — In a psychic fashion. vs psychicist →psychopathologist 62% match — One who studies psychopathology. vs psychicist →cyberpsychologist 62% match — One who studies cyberpsychology. vs psychicist →