psychic income

noun

1. the personal or subjective benefits, rewards, or satisfactions derived from a job or undertaking as separate from its objective or financial ones.

Word History and Origins

Origin of psychic income¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

I am convinced more and more that people want psychic income from us—they want to be told how nice and good they are.

From The Daily Beast

Things are causally related in varying degrees to the psychic income, and have value only as their relation is known and felt.

From Project Gutenberg

Material income and immaterial income are both related to and reducible to psychic income.

From Project Gutenberg

The durable goods are those utilities which for the time remain, not yet ripened or ready to be converted into psychic income.

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Indeed, we are close here to the conception of psychic income which is to be developed more fully.

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Human services, being one of the conditions of psychic income, bear the same relation to wants that material goods bear.

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