The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromψυχή“mind, soul”
- English todaypsychedelic
From Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “mind, soul”) + δῆλος (dêlos, “manifest, visible”) + English -ic (prefix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’), coined by the English psychiatrist Humphry Osmond (1917–2004) in a 1956 letter to Aldous Huxley.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekψυχή all →
psychologypsychicpsychepsychopathpolypsychismpsychonarrationpsychonarrativepsychophorpsychosophy
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.