psychology

noun4

1. •
   The study of the human mind.

   • Idleness is the beginning of all psychology . — 2023
2. •
   The study of human or animal behavior.
3. •
   (historical) The study of the soul.

   • Alcinous in Didascalius chapter 23 uses the three physical locations of the human soul from Timaeus 69c–72c […] to lead into a dedicated discussion of psychology. — 2010
4. •
   The mental, emotional, and behavioral characteristics pertaining to a specified person, group, or activity.

   • For generations, historians have conjectured everything from a warped psychology to a deformed body as accounting for Elizabeth's preferred spinsterhood... — 1970