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Definition of Psychical deafness

Psychical deafness
Psychic Psy"chic, Psychical Psy"chic*al, a. [L. psychicus, Gr. ?, fr. psychh` the soul, mind; cf. ? to blow: cf. F. psychique.] 1. Of or pertaining to the human soul, or to the living principle in man. Note: This term was formerly used to express the same idea as psychological. Recent metaphysicians, however, have employed it to mark the difference between psychh` the living principle in man, and pney^ma the rational or spiritual part of his nature. In this use, the word describes the human soul in its relation to sense, appetite, and the outer visible world, as distinguished from spiritual or rational faculties, which have to do with the supersensible world. --Heyse. 2. Of or pertaining to the mind, or its functions and diseases; mental; -- contrasted with physical. Psychical blindness, Psychical deafness (Med.), forms of nervous disease in which, while the senses of sight and hearing remain unimpaired, the mind fails to appreciate the significance of the sounds heard or the images seen. Psychical contagion, the transference of disease, especially of a functional nervous disease, by mere force of example. Psychical medicine, that department of medicine which treats of mental diseases.

Meaning of Psychical deafness from wikipedia

- members of the American Society for Psychical Research and later its British ****ociate, the Society for Psychical Research. Among these were Minot Savage...
- sulcus produces 'pure word deafness' (Kussmaul, 1877), or as it is understood today, speech agnosia. Patients with pure word deafness demonstrate the inability...
- Designing Women (1992-93). For her role in the television film What the Deaf Man Heard (1997), she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding...
- consisting of epilepsy, ataxia (a movement disorder), sensorineural deafness (deafness because of problems with the hearing nerve) and salt-wasting renal...
- Hedingham, Es****, a small farming village in the English countryside, he was a deaf-mute who earned a living as a local fortune teller. In September 1863, Dummy...
- Psychic Detective Yakumo (心霊探偵 八雲, Shinrei Tantei Yakumo) is a mystery novel series written by Manabu Kaminaga, published by Nihon Bungeisha with illustrations...
- her bag. 794 "The Case of the Predictions" 14 January 2012 (2012-1-14) A psychic who can read mind finds that one of the guests on his show is a killer...
- "Private Booths" the samples at the start are from an interview with a psychic who parti****ted in the Montauk Project...I sampled it from a UK TV show...
- he is best known for playing Joe DuBois, the sleep-deprived husband of psychic Allison DuBois, in the po****r drama series Medium. In 2001 and 2002, Weber...
- William James of Harvard University and Richard Hodgson of the Society for Psychical Research traveled to study him. Under hypnosis, they found, he could be...