psychometry

[ sahy-kom-i-tree ]

/ saɪˈkɒm ɪ tri /

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

psy·cho·met·ric, psy·cho·met·ri·cal, adjective psy·chom·e·tri·cian

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

It may require a century for mankind fully to realize the value of Psychometry.

Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 |Various
The facts of clairvoyance, trance, somnambulism and psychometry prove the existence of this ether, and are correlated to it.

Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science |Hudson Tuttle
She suggested I should meet her at Paddington, and then go to a lecture on psychometry with her, and tea afterwards.

Antony Gray,--Gardener |Leslie Moore
His gift of psychometry, none the less, was considered proved—in spite of the backward and indifferent dealers.

The Bright Messenger |Algernon Blackwood

Psychometry is merely one form of astral seeing; just as is crystal gazing.

Clairvoyance and Occult Powers |Swami Panchadasi

psychometry

/ (saɪˈkɒmɪtrɪ) /

measurement and testing of mental states and processes See also psychometrics

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

psychometrician (ˌsaɪkəʊməˈtrɪʃən) or psychometrist, noun