psychometry
Americannoun
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Psychology. psychometrics.
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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.
noun
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measurement and testing of mental states and processes See also psychometrics
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(in parapsychology) the supposed ability to deduce facts about events by touching objects related to them
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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
While he was away she'd been all through psychometry, the planchette, clairvoyance, palmistry, astrology, and Unitarianism.
From The Seeker by Harry Leon Wilson
Really psychometry, depending on the sensitiveness of the brain, is a lower degree of clairvoyance, and is merged, in its clearest forms, therein.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Hudson Tuttle
In the case of Clairvoyance, we have an instance of the simplest form of astral seeing, without the necessity of the "associated object" of psychometry, or the focal point of the crystal in crystal gazing.
From Clairvoyance and Occult Powers by Swami Panchadasi
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