Psychology

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The science of the human soul; specifically, the systematic or scientific knowledge of the powers and functions of the human soul, so far as they are known by consciousness; a treatise on the human soul. Psychology, the science conversant about the phenomena of the mind, or conscious subject, or self. - Sir W. Hamilton.

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psychology - the science of mental life Synonyms: psychological science

affect, affectivity, anatomy, anthropography, anthropologist, anthropology, anthropometry, attitude, behavior, behavioral science, constitution, craniology, craniometry, demography, emotion, emotions, emotivity, ethnography, ethnologist, ethnology, feeling, feeling tone, feelings, human ecology, human geography, mental attitude, nature, opinion, position, posture, psyche, rationale, reasoning, science of man, sentiment, sociologist, sociology, stance, thinking, way of thinking