Where did the term "parapsychology " come from?

Question

Seems like they should have called it paranormalology.

Answer 1

para is latin for with, out .  Psych/o is the combiing form of the word, meaning mental.  ology is a suffixing meaning, study of.  So, that would mean it's the stuff outside of human understanding.  I am leaning medical terminology as part of a class, and the prefix happened to be in the lit.

Answer 2

Of course! the root word of it are "paranormal and psychology".

Answer 3

The credit for coining the term parapsychology usually goes to Max Dessoir (who said it in German) back in 1889.

J. B. Rhine adopted it for English use (1920-1930's).

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