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psicología

psychology

noun psee-koh-loh-HEE-ah Rare
Mind & Emotions Mental States

Origin: Greek psyche (soul) + logos (study)

Usage Note

Psicología is spelled with an initial ps-, which is pronounced in careful speech as ps- but commonly reduced to s- in everyday speech (sicología). Both spellings are accepted by the RAE, though psicología remains standard in formal and academic writing. A practitioner is un/una psicólogo/a; note the accent shifts in psicólogo compared to psicología.

Examples

"Estudia psicología en la universidad."

Natural Translation

She studies psychology at university.

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