psychophony
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The appearance of voices or meaningful sounds in the white noise on electronic recordings; electronic voice phenomenon (EVP).
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Their motives are perhaps not entirely laudable and probably they are being fooled; but even if they are not getting authentic messages from the dead, yet some queer things have happened and are happening as a result of psychophony."
- "In this way the ancient knowledge of Pythagoras is applied in the most modern form of psychophony, and in this way, for the first time in the existence of the present world, the special mind-power vibrations which you require are reproduced on the invisible ether, at your command, by the use of the psychophonic records."
- "Not uncommonly, the vibrations produce a sensation of inflation common in psychophony (vocal channeling) with the apparent expansion and swelling of the hands, feet, lips, cheeks, chin and solar plexus area."
- "The third is the message of one or more spirits, which in psychophony is identified only as a spiritual friend."
- "They started their own research at the beginning of the seventies, after hearing of Jürgenson's voices, and since then they have indefatigably dedicated a lot of their time and energy to research, particularly in the field of psychophony, as the phenomenon is known in Spain."
- "Then there was the EVP (Psychophony), that, as I checked on the Internet, is still practised now."