Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The supposed ability or art of divining information about people or events associated with an object solely by touching or being near to it.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The power, fancied to be possessed by some sensitive persons, of catching impressions from contact which enable them to describe the properties of medicines, the vital forces of any part of the human constitution, the character, physiological condition, etc., of persons whose autographs or photographs are touched, and the scenes associated with any substance investigated.
- noun The measurement of the duration of psychic processes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol.) The art of measuring the duration of mental processes, or of determining the time relations of mental phenomena.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
paranormal ability to discover information about an object's past, and especially about its past owners, merely by handling it. - noun psychology The use of
psychological tests to measureintelligence , abilities, attitudes, andpersonality traits .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any branch of psychology concerned with psychological measurements
Etymologies
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Examples
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Pedagogy, however, although it may profit by psychometry is not designed to measure the sensations, but educate the senses.
The Montessori Method Anne E. Montessori George 1912
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With Sergeant Fernando Realyvasquez on the phone, Annette will use a technique called psychometry to visualize the missing man.
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_Fourthly_, the impression said to be left in or upon objects or houses, and the phenomena of "psychometry" seem to indicate the same thing.
The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Hereward Carrington 1919
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Retra (Name may change): A Genki Girl whose powers relate to psychometry and retrocognition – essentially, she can see the past of objects.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Wings’ Second Review Forum 2009
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Just a thought, I think the ability of Super Touch could be better described as psychometry or possibly even a mild form of clairvoyance.
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While their theory and the general field of psychometry is complex, the most wrong-headed notion emerging from their work was that this IQ disparity explained social inequity.
Steve Nelson: Education Reform -- Crashing on the Bell Curve Steve Nelson 2010
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Simon has the power of psychometry, a very Victorian-sounding ability that allows him to psychically 'read' objects.
Dead To Me Jes Battis 2008
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Hypoglycemia as an after-effect of psychometry still seems a bit minor, given the pros of the power, and if all Canderous has to do is pop a LifeSaver then it's not really a weakness at all.
Dead To Me Jes Battis 2008
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Simon was recruited to the D.E.A because of his unique power to see the history and events around objects with the touch of his hand, aka psychometry.
Archive 2010-02-01 Donna 2010
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Simon was recruited to the D.E.A because of his unique power to see the history and events around objects with the touch of his hand, aka psychometry.
Guest Review: Dead Matter by Anton Strout Donna 2010
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