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心理 (しんり, shinri) Japanese meaning: psychology | Kotomora
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理り
解かい
でき
ない
。
I can't understand his state of mind.
I'm majoring in psychology.
Usage patterns 〈 人ひと 〉 の 心しん 理り を 読よ む to read someone's mind/psychological state
He's good at reading his opponent's mindset.
心しん 理り を 突つ く to exploit a psychological weakness
That salesman is skilled at exploiting customers' psychology.
心しん 理り を 利り 用よう する to take advantage of someone's mindset
Scammers exploit people's psychology to make them believe things.
〈 事こと 〉 が 心しん 理り に 影えい 響きょう する for something to affect one's mental state
Prolonged loneliness has a major effect on one's mental state.
Kanji 理 logic, arrangement, reason Related words· 6 気持ち is the everyday word for feelings or mood, while 心理 is a more analytical term used for mental states, especially in academic or introspective contexts.
精神 refers broadly to the mind or spirit, sometimes in a philosophical sense, while 心理 focuses specifically on mental processes and psychological states.
心情 emphasizes a person's inner feelings or emotional state at a given moment, whereas 心理 is broader and covers mental processes in general.
心理 refers broadly to the mind or mental state, while 心理学 names the academic discipline that studies it.
Show 2 more 心理 refers to psychology or mental processes in an analytical sense, whereas 心境 describes one's subjective inner feelings at a given moment.
心理 is the analytical term for psychological states or mentality, while 内面 is a broader word for one's inner world including personality.
Don't confuse with 心理 (mental state, psychology) and 真理 (truth, universal principle) are pronounced identically but have completely unrelated meanings.
生理 (physiology/period) and 心理 (psychology/mental state) look and sound similar but refer to completely different domains—body versus mind.
物理 (physics, the study of matter and energy) and 心理 (psychology, the study of the mind) are both academic-subject words ending in り and are easily mixed up by learners.
Etymology Sino-Japanese compound of 心 (heart, mind) and 理 (principle, logic), literally 'principles of the mind'. The modern sense of 'psychology' emerged in the late 19th century as a translation of the Western concept.
審しん 理り
心理 (also read しんり) means 'psychology; mental state' and is unrelated in meaning to 審理, which is a legal term for a court hearing.
心しん 理り 状じょう 態たい
N3
state of mind; mental state
clinical psychologist; psychological professional
Show 6 more licensed psychologist; certified public psychologist
psychological warfare
human psychology
abnormal mentality; abnormal psychology
psychologism
psychological tactics; psychological operations
