Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mediumistic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.07 in modern English

Syllables: medi-u-mistic
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to mediums (people claiming to contact the dead); relating to or having the ability to communicate with spirits.

Example Sentences

"1852, E. C. Rogers, Philosophy of Mysterious Agents, Human and Mundane, Boston: Redding, No. 1, p. 88, Fear of the world, fear of man individually, fear of loss of property or station, would all interfere, and prevent them from giving to their fellow-men, teachings, that their more receptive and mediumistic minds had been capable of receiving."
"Mr. Michie’s wife is mediumistic and liable to be controlled. One day an entity came to her and spoke through her to her husband […]"
"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."
"I don’t imagine either of these young women has mediumistic gifts?"

Etymology

From medium + -istic.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: medium

Inflected Forms

more mediumistic (comparative) most mediumistic (superlative)

Derived Forms

mediumistically unmediumistic

Frequently Paired Words

mediumism

Questions

What does mediumistic mean?: Of or pertaining to mediums (people claiming to contact the dead); relating to or having the ability to communicate with spirits.
Where does mediumistic come from?: From medium + -istic.

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