psychometry

[sahy-kom-i-tree]

noun

Psychology. psychometrics.
the alleged art or faculty of divining facts concerning an object or a person associated with it, by contact with or proximity to the object.

Origin of psychometry

First recorded in 1850–55; psycho- + -metry

Related formspsy·cho·met·ric, psy·cho·met·ri·cal, adjectivepsy·chom·e·tri·cian

[sahy-kom-i-trish-uh n] /saɪˌkɒm ɪˈtrɪʃ ən/, psy·chom·e·trist, noun

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Examples from the Web for psychometric

Historical Examples of psychometric

Then there is the psychometric doctor, who cures by spirits.
As A Chinaman Saw Us
Anonymous
Some writers have called 86this class of psychometric phenomena "psychic spying" or "psychic detective work."
Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers
Bhakta Vishita
Letters frequently prove to be very excellent connecting links in psychometric experiments.
Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers
Bhakta Vishita
I make use of a material which, at first glance, may be confused with psychometric material.
The Montessori Method
Maria Montessori
These are not psychometric forecasts, but rational inferences, from our increasing rate of progress.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888
Various

British Dictionary definitions for psychometric

psychometric

psychometrical

adjective

of or relating to psychometrics or psychometry

Derived Formspsychometrically, adverb

psychometry

noun psychol

measurement and testing of mental states and processesSee also psychometrics
(in parapsychology) the supposed ability to deduce facts about events by touching objects related to them

Derived Formspsychometrician (ˌsaɪkəʊməˈtrɪʃən) or psychometrist, noun

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Word Origin and History for psychometric

adj.

also psycho-metric, 1854, from psychometry (1854), the alleged power of reading the history of an object by handling it, + -ic. In reference to the measurement of the duration of mental states, from 1879, from psycho- + -metric.