mediumship
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.02 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The state of being a medium (psychic conduit); purported ability to mediate communication between spirits of the dead and living human beings.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The mother is a spiritualist—has been for years—and, being on the lookout for it, naturally discovered what she calls 'mediumship' in Viola when a child."
- ""I may add that in my own domestic circle, under my wife's mediumship, we have been privileged to bring hope and knowledge to some of these unhappy beings.""
- "But for myself I do not regard mediumship very favourably."