"psychon" meaning in All languages combined

See psychon on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: psychons [plural]
Etymology: From psycho- + -on. Etymology templates: {{confix|en|psycho|on}} psycho- + -on Head templates: {{en-noun}} psychon (plural psychons)
  1. A hypothetical particle of consciousness. Derived forms: psychonic Translations (particle of consciousness): Psychon [neuter] (German), психон (psixon) (Russian), психон (psyxon) (Ukrainian)

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "psycho",
        "3": "on"
      },
      "expansion": "psycho- + -on",
      "name": "confix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From psycho- + -on.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "psychons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "psychon (plural psychons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with psycho-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -on",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Russian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "psychonic"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023, Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Thirty years later, in his book How the Self Controls Its Brain (Springer Verlag, 1994), [John] Eccles posited that the “mind” produces “psychons” (i.e., fundamental units of consciousness, a term previously mostly used in cheesy science fiction) […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A hypothetical particle of consciousness."
      ],
      "id": "en-psychon-en-noun-ynjLmpRa",
      "links": [
        [
          "particle",
          "particle"
        ],
        [
          "consciousness",
          "consciousness"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "particle of consciousness",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Psychon"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "psixon",
          "sense": "particle of consciousness",
          "word": "психон"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "psyxon",
          "sense": "particle of consciousness",
          "word": "психон"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "psychon"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "psychonic"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "psycho",
        "3": "on"
      },
      "expansion": "psycho- + -on",
      "name": "confix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From psycho- + -on.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "psychons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "psychon (plural psychons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms prefixed with psycho-",
        "English terms suffixed with -on",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Ukrainian translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023, Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Thirty years later, in his book How the Self Controls Its Brain (Springer Verlag, 1994), [John] Eccles posited that the “mind” produces “psychons” (i.e., fundamental units of consciousness, a term previously mostly used in cheesy science fiction) […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A hypothetical particle of consciousness."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "particle",
          "particle"
        ],
        [
          "consciousness",
          "consciousness"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "particle of consciousness",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Psychon"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "psixon",
      "sense": "particle of consciousness",
      "word": "психон"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "psyxon",
      "sense": "particle of consciousness",
      "word": "психон"
    }
  ],
  "word": "psychon"
}

Download raw JSONL data for psychon meaning in All languages combined (1.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.