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Psychic vs. Magician — What's the Difference?

Psychic vs. Magician — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Psychic and Magician

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Psychic

A psychic is a person who claims to use extrasensory perception (ESP) to identify information hidden from the normal senses, particularly involving telepathy or clairvoyance, or who performs acts that are apparently inexplicable by natural laws, such as psychokinesis or apportation. Although many people believe in psychic abilities, the scientific consensus is that there is no proof of the existence of such powers, and describes the practice as pseudoscience.

Magician

A sorcerer; a wizard.

Psychic

A person apparently responsive to psychic forces.

Magician

One who performs magic for entertainment or diversion.

Psychic

See medium.
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Magician

One whose formidable skill or art seems to be magical
A magician with words.

Psychic

Of, relating to, affecting, or influenced by the human mind or psyche; mental
Psychic trauma.
Psychic energy.

Magician

A person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic.

Psychic

Capable of extraordinary mental processes, such as extrasensory perception and mental telepathy.

Magician

A spiritualist or practitioner of mystic arts.

Psychic

Of or relating to such mental processes.

Magician

A performer of tricks or an escapologist or an illusionist.

Psychic

A person who possesses, or appears to possess, extra-sensory abilities such as precognition, clairvoyance and telepathy, or who appears to be susceptible to paranormal or supernatural influences.

Magician

An amazingly talented craftsman or scientist.

Psychic

(parapsychology) A person who supposedly contacts the dead; a medium.

Magician

A person who astounds; an enigma.

Psychic

(gnosticism) In gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man the second type; a person focused on intellectual reality (the other two being hylic and pneumatic).

Magician

One skilled in magic; one who practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer.

Psychic

Relating to or having the abilities of a psychic.
You must be psychic—I was just about to say that.
She is a psychic person—she hears messages from beyond.

Magician

An entertainer who produces seemingly magical effects by clever illusions; most magicians admit that the craft is mere illusion, rather than a true supernatural art.

Psychic

Relating to the psyche or mind, or to mental activity in general.

Magician

Someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience

Psychic

Of or pertaining to the human soul, or to the living principle in man.

Magician

One who practices magic or sorcery

Psychic

Of or pertaining to the mind, or its functions and diseases; mental; - contrasted with physical.

Psychic

A person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception

Psychic

Pertaining to forces or mental processes outside the possibilities defined by natural or scientific laws;
Psychic reader
Psychical research

Psychic

Affecting or influenced by the human mind;
Psychic energy
Psychic trauma

Psychic

Outside the sphere of physical science;
Psychic phenomena

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