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Psychometry

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The paranormal ability to discover information about an object's past, and especially about its past owners, merely by handling it. countable, uncountable

    ""Their power and knowledge are as closely limited as ours. But this is not a matter for the spirit people. What I did then was psychometry, which, so far as we know, is a power of the human soul.""

  2. 2
    any branch of psychology concerned with psychological measurements wordnet
  3. 3
    The use of psychological tests to measure intelligence, abilities, attitudes, and personality traits. countable, uncountable

    "In psychometry and paedometry his original contributions will be little unless he had equipped himself well with the subjects like mathematics and statistics."

Etymology

From psycho- + -metry.

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