psychomachy

noun

psy·​chom·​a·​chy

-äməkē

plural -es

: a conflict of the soul (as with the body or between good and evil)

Word History

Etymology

Late Latin psychomachia conflict of the soul, probably from Greek psych- + -machia -machy

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