psychophysics
noun
psychophysics is a noun meaning “The branch of psychology concerned with the effects of physical stimuli on mental processes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-S-Y-C-H-O-P-H-Y-S-I-C-S, and it appears about once in every 16 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does psychophysics mean?
noun
- 1
The branch of psychology concerned with the effects of physical stimuli on mental processes.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is psychophysics?
Psychophysics appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th 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).
Psychophysics in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a branch of psychology:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | psychophysique |
| German | Psychophysik |
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 psychophysics come from?
From psycho- + physics.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).