psychometry

American  

[sahy-kom-i-tree] / saɪˈkɒm ɪ tri /

noun

1. Psychology. psychometrics.

2. 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.

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psychometry British  

/ saɪˈkɒmɪtrɪ /

noun

1. measurement and testing of mental states and processes See also psychometrics

2. (in parapsychology) the supposed ability to deduce facts about events by touching objects related to them

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Other Word Forms

• psychometrician
  noun
• psychometrist
  noun
• psychometric
  adjective
• psychometrical
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of psychometry

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

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Example Sentences

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psychometry

The definition varies depending on whom you ask but here, in addition to animal telepathy, the school offers instruction in angel-channeling, mind-reading, psychometry and communication with spirits of the dead.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 10, 2018

But according to our psychometry reading, which is governed by our individual psychic powers .

From Time Magazine Archive

Often the medium in this stage of development is also able to manifest psychic powers which were formerly beyond his ability, as for instance psychometry, clairvoyance, etc.

From Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers by William Walker Atkinson

While he was away she'd been all through psychometry, the planchette, clairvoyance, palmistry, astrology, and Unitarianism.

From The Seeker by Harry Leon Wilson

Clairaudience is far more general than second sight, but there is the same variability in the range of perception as is seen in clairvoyance and psychometry.

From Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance by Sepharial

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