psychとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /saɪk/
• 異形同音異義語: cyc, sike
• 韻: -aɪk

語源 1

Clipping of psychiatry and psychology.

名詞

psych (uncountable) (informal, often attributive)

1. (psychiatry) Clipping of psychiatry.
   1. A psychiatric hospital or other treatment facility; also, a psychiatric department or ward in such a facility.

      He had to be involuntarily committed to the psych ward.

      • 2014 August 15, Desha Blue, “News 2013”, in Psychiatric Abuse Poetry …: Shattering the Bloody Glass Ceiling, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN:

        A fool who had never seen reality would think an old lady is harmless or weak. Perhaps the morons in the outside world believe an old lady locked-up in psych is akin to a sweet little grandmother, a poor old dear who is just a little confused. Such a fool does not understand the truth of some psychiatric "patients" or the reality of how that type of "patient" can de-compensate suddenly, oftentimes with no warning, and go berserk on another "patient" or on a BHT with super-human like strength so much like a person in the old movies who is hopped up on PCP.

      • 2016 March 6, Joanna Mazurkiewicz, “Detective Lee”, in Skimming the Surface (Love & Hate; 4), [United States]: Joanna Mazurkiewicz, published 2020, →ISBN:

        "I couldn't stay in the psych. I had to get out, before Rudolf got to me. He is alive; he set me up," I tell him, looking around, and trying to figure out why I'm not in prison or at the police station.

      • 2025 June 30, Lexy Timms, “Clay”, in Not Another Love Story, part 2, [United States]: Dark Shadow Publishing, →ISBN:

        I still stood by my assessment that she should've checked into psych. Body dysmorphia was one thing but actually believing Barbie was a real person walking among us? That was a little too much.

2. (psychology) Clipping of psychology.

   I took psych in my freshman year at college.

派生語

• (psychiatry): geri-psych, psych hospital, psych ward
• (psychology): evo-psych, pop psych, psych verb

関連する語

• psych-, psycho-
• psyche

語源 2

Clipping of psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and psychologist.

名詞

psych (plural psychs) (informal)

1. (psychiatry) Clipping of psychiatrist.
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, “Talking Back”, in Livia: Or Buried Alive […] ([The Avignon Quintet; 2]), London; Boston, Mass.: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 178:

     [S]he had had what she declared was a momentous series of meetings with [Sigmund] Freud in Vienna. She had attended a conference of psychs at which he had presided and they had taken a fancy to each other.

2. (psychoanalysis, psychology) Clipping of psychologist; also, a clipping of psychoanalyst.

別の表記

• psyche (dated)

語源 3

Clipping of psychoanalyse.

動詞

psych (third-person singular simple present psychs, present participle psyching, simple past and past participle psyched) (transitive, informal)

1. (psychoanalysis) Clipping of psychoanalyse (“to treat (someone) using psychoanalysis”); also, to carry out psychological testing on (someone).
   • 1982, Saul Bellow, chapter X, in The Dean’s December […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 202:

     Prisoners brought from all the lockups in the city were unloaded here. […] They trooped in to be psyched, social-worked, assigned to cells.

2. (originally and chiefly US, by extension) Chiefly followed by out: to analyse (something), especially psychologically; also (generally), to work out (something).

語源 4

The verb is a clipping of psychologize.

The interjection is probably derived from the verb.

動詞

psych (third-person singular simple present psychs, present participle psyching, simple past and past participle psyched) (originally US, informal)

1. (transitive, also reflexive)
   1. Often followed by out: to deceive, intimidate, or otherwise manipulate (someone or oneself) emotionally or using psychology.
   2. Often followed by up: to put (someone or oneself) into a mental or psychological state where one is ready for some (often challenging) experience; specifically, to make (someone or oneself) enthusiastic or excited about something.

      Hip hop always gets me psyched, so I put it on before a race.

      • 1979 August 18, Susan Shanbaum, quotee, “The Diversity of Women’s Music: Berkeley Women’s Music Collective”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 5, Boston, Mass.: The Bromfield Street Educational Foundation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13, column 3:

        On the stage, what we have to try to have shine through is our love for each other. Sometimes it's difficult, we have to try to psych ourselves out of the places we're at and go to a higher spiritual plane.

2. (intransitive)
   1. Of a person: to get into a mental or psychological state where one is ready for some (often challenging) experience; specifically, to make oneself enthusiastic or excited about something.
   2. (US) Followed by out: to become mentally confused or disturbed.

別の表記

• psyche, sike, syke

派生語

間投詞

psych (originally US, informal or slang)

1. Used to indicate jokingly that a statement which one has made was false and that one has successfully fooled the person whom one is speaking to; just kidding!, not!, tricked you!

   Here, have fifty dollars. Psych! That was two dollars!

   I broke up with my girlfriend. Here’s her number. Psych! That’s the wrong number!

2. Used to express surprised happiness; wow!

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:wow

   Psych! I just found my missing bracelet!

語源 5

The noun is a clipping of psychic (noun).

The verb is a clipping of psychic (adjective) in psychic bid. It is attested slightly earlier than the noun.

名詞

psych (plural psyches) (informal)

1. (rare) Clipping of psychic (“a person who possesses, or appears to possess, extra-sensory abilities such as clairvoyance, precognition, and telepathy, or who appears to be susceptible to paranormal or supernatural influences”).
2. (bridge) Clipping of psychic or psychic bid (“a bid intended to mislead opponents by giving a false impression about one's hand of playing cards”).

別の表記

• psyche

動詞

psych (third-person singular simple present psychs, present participle psyching, simple past and past participle psyched) (bridge)

1. (transitive)
   1. To make (a bid) intended to mislead opponents by giving a false impression about one's hand of playing cards.
   2. To deceive (an opponent or opponents) with such a psychic bid.
2. (intransitive) To make a bid intended to mislead opponents by giving a false impression about one's hand of playing cards; to make a psychic bid.

別の表記

• psyche

語源 6

The adjective is a clipping of psychedelic (adjective).

The noun is a clipping of psychedelic rock.

形容詞

psych (comparative more psych, superlative most psych) (informal)

1. Clipping of psychedelic (“of, containing, generating, or reminiscent of drug-induced altered awareness, distortions of perception, hallucinations, etc.”).

   curtains with psych colours    psych-rock

2. (music) Of or relating to psychedelic rock music.

   a psych album    a psych band

別の表記

• psyche

派生語

• psych-fi
• psych folk

名詞

psych (uncountable)

1. (music, informal) Clipping of psychedelic rock (“a genre of rock music influenced by psychedelia, blues, electronic music, folk music, jazz, and the hippie counterculture of the 1960s”).

参照

Further reading

• psychedelia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• psychedelic rock on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• psychiatry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• psychoanalysis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• psychology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia