Sálfræðilegs

Sálfræðilegs is an Icelandic grammatical form of the adjective sálfræðilegur, meaning psychological or relating to psychology. It is used when the noun it describes is in the genitive singular, typically for masculine or neuter nouns. In routine prose, you will encounter the full adjective in other cases and numbers, while sálfræðilegs appears specifically as the genitive singular masculine or neuter form, for example in phrases that mean “of psychological nature.”

The base noun sálfræði means psychology, and the related words include sálfræðingur (psychologist) and the adverbial or adjectival forms built from the same root. The suffix -legr in Icelandic generally marks an adjective as pertaining to a field or quality, here applied to psychology. The genitive singular ending -s is a characteristic inflection for this form in appropriate grammatical contexts.

In usage, sálfræðilegs appears in formal or academic writing when a noun phrase is governed by a genitive construction and the idea being described belongs to psychology. It can occur in discussions of mental processes, behavior, or psychological phenomena, where a precise, technical tone is desired. More common everyday references may simply use sálfræðilegur or sálfræði, depending on the syntactic needs of the sentence.

See also: sálfræði, sálfræðingur, sálfræðilegur. Note that sálfræðilegs is a specialized inflected form and not a separate lexical entry with a distinct meaning beyond the adjective’s base sense.