Synonyms for "dowsing" (13 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (3)

diviningdowse

Noun(1 words)

divining

Strong matches (4)

Noun(2 words)

dowserhabdomancy

soakingwand

Related words (6)

water diviningwater witchwater witchingwitching

Noun(2 words)

water diviningwater witching

Related word relations

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4 relation types

More general

4 entries

divinationforetellingfortune tellingsoothsaying

Synonyms

4 entries

diviningdowsewater diviningwater witching

derived

2 entries

Dowsing Pointdowsing rod

form of

1 entries

dowse

Translations

14 translations across 11 languages.

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Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

• 尋水術 /寻水术 noun (water-seeking practice)
• 探尋水源 /探寻水源 noun (water-seeking practice)

Czech

1 entries

• proutkaření noun (water-seeking practice)

Danish

1 entries

• kvistgang noun (water-seeking practice)

Finnish

1 entries

• kaivonkatsominen noun (water-seeking practice)

French

1 entries

• rhabdomancie noun (water-seeking practice)

Galician

1 entries

• rabdomancia noun (water-seeking practice)

German

1 entries

• Wünschelrutengehen noun (water-seeking practice)

Greek

1 entries

• υδροσκοπία noun (water-seeking practice)

Italian

1 entries

• rabdomanzia noun (water-seeking practice)

Japanese

1 entries

• ダウジング noun (water-seeking practice)

Russian

3 entries

• биолока́ция noun (water-seeking practice)
• лозоиска́тельство noun (water-seeking practice)
• лозохо́дство noun (water-seeking practice)

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The dowser used a dowsing rod to search for water.

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