psychometry
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.51 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The paranormal ability to discover information about an object's past, and especially about its past owners, merely by handling it.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The use of psychological tests to measure intelligence, abilities, attitudes, and personality traits.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- ""Their power and knowledge are as closely limited as ours. But this is not a matter for the spirit people. What I did then was psychometry, which, so far as we know, is a power of the human soul.""
- "Then there is that queer practice of the whites, psychometry, by which mediumistic people claim they can, by handling any object, tell events that occurred to the owner of it."
- "In psychometry and paedometry his original contributions will be little unless he had equipped himself well with the subjects like mathematics and statistics."
- "Again, barring in a few universities psychometry and physiological psychology are not regarded as compulsory papers."
Etymology
From psycho- + -metry.