Synonyms for psyche
ˈsaɪ kipsy·che

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1. mind, head, brain, psyche, nousnoun

   that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason

   "his mind wandered"; "I couldn't get his words out of my head"

   Synonyms:
   learning ability, idea, thinker, heading, promontory, school principal, wit, mind, head teacher, brainpower, intellect, nous, question, mental capacity, fountainhead, encephalon, point, head, top dog, mentality, creative thinker, brain, headland, mastermind, brainiac, header, genius, headspring, foreland, pass, chief, headway, judgment, read/write head, judgement, drumhead, head word, forefront, capitulum, oral sex, principal, caput, straits, soul

2. soul, psychenoun

   the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life

   Synonyms:
   somebody, head, person, someone, brain, mortal, soulfulness, soul, individual, mind, nous

3. Psychenoun

   (Greek mythology) a beautiful princess loved by Cupid who visited her at night and told her she must not try to see him; became the personification of the soul

   Synonyms:
   mind, head, brain, nous, soul

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1. • Greek Mythology
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1. List of paraphrases for "psyche":

   psychology, soul, self-control, mentality

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1. psyche

   Synonyms:
   Mind, see there
   

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How to use psyche in a sentence?

1. Tim Soutphommasane:

   There is a strong protectionist streak in the national psyche, in the past, this had its most potent expression in the form of the Fortress Australia immigration policy.

2. Leatrice Eiseman:

   How we see colors in nature has such an important effect on the human psyche, and we know that from the beginning of time, black is the color of night, and it's the color that could hide any nefarious deeds that might be perpetrated under the cover of darkness.

3. Rosy Cole:

   “Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly rendered. The transparency of one culture overlays another, and another, to form the daguerreotype of possibilities that is homo sapiens, interacting, almost like the elements themselves, with the created world and modified only by context and its imperatives.”-- from Circles and Arcs

4. Steve Barrow:

   The significance of any Greek default at this juncture is that the negative psyche that results will mix with the trepidation that's already out there over the global financial cycle, hence, we'd see default as a pretty traumatic event for the markets, even if many seem to doubt this right now.

5. Kyle Woods:

   I just don't think it's good for our society or for people's psyche. I think the embrace and the handshake are important, but that's just me, and I respect those who feel differently. If someone wants to elbow bump, then I give them the cheerful elbow bump.