psychophysical
adjective
psychophysical is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to psychophysics” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-S-Y-C-H-O-P-H-Y-S-I-C-A-L, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does psychophysical mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to psychophysics.
Near-synonym: physicopsychical
- 2
Psychosomatic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is psychophysical?
Psychophysical appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 115,751st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Psychophysical in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | psychophysikalisch , psychosomatisch |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does psychophysical come from?
From psycho- + physical.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).