Psihice

Psihice is a term most often encountered in Romanian-language texts as a grammatical form of psihic, an adjective meaning mental or psychic. In Romanian grammar, psihic has inflected forms for gender and number; psihice typically appears as the feminine plural or as a neuter plural when used with certain nouns. It commonly appears in compound expressions describing mental processes or phenomena, such as stări psihice (mental states) or capacități psihice (psychic or mental abilities). In everyday Romanian, the sense is linguistic rather than representing a separate scientific category.

Etymology-wise, psihice derives from the psych- root, tracing back to Greek psyche meaning mind or soul, with the Romanian suffix -ic(-ă) applied to form adjectives. The resulting form adapts to agreement with the nouns it modifies, yielding feminine plural as psihice in many phrases.

In English-language texts, psihice is not a standard term; when Romanian material is translated or read by non-Romanians, the word is usually treated as a loanword or transliterated as a form related to psychic or psychology, rather than as a standalone English term.

Relation to science and discourse is primarily linguistic. While psychology and related fields study mental processes and behavior, psihice itself is not a distinct scientific discipline. It functions as a grammatical descriptor within Romanian, signaling attributes tied to the psyche in specific noun phrases.

See also: psyche, psychology, Romanian language.