Psychicism

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The study of psychic ability. uncountable
  2. 2
    Psychic ability. uncountable

    "They apparently have a theory that the indefinable psychic gift that they call magic, and which we might designate "psychicism", can be acquired by accosting the soul of a murdered man in a burial ground at midnight."

Example

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"They apparently have a theory that the indefinable psychic gift that they call magic, and which we might designate "psychicism", can be acquired by accosting the soul of a murdered man in a burial ground at midnight."

Etymology

From psychic + -ism.

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