Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
parapsychologist is a noun meaning "someone who studies the evidence for such psychological phenomena as psychokinesis and telepathy and clairvoyance". It carries one recorded sense.
someone who studies the evidence for such psychological phenomena as psychokinesis and telepathy and clairvoyance
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for parapsychologist come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.