Meaning of labiomancy | Babel Free

Definitions

Lipreading.

uncountable

Examples

“They are so proficient in labiomancy that they can follow⟳ a private conversation anywhere if they can see⟳ the speakers' faces.”

“Nay, so very well skilled was she in this art (which we may call⟳ Labiomancy) as 'tis generally believed (though I could get⟳ no personal testimony of it, some persons being dead, and otherers removed into Ireland, who sometimes lay⟳ with her), that in the night time when in bed, if she might lay⟳ but her hand on their lipps, so as to feel⟳ the motions of them, she could perfectly understand⟳ what her bedfellows said though it were never so dark.””

“Here we shall use⟳ the former for no better reason⟳ than that it is in common use⟳ in Britain and has a more ancient history; Berger (1972a) recounts that three centuries ago the English Dr. Plot was writing on "labiomancy".”

“Nowadays, face⟳ detection is beyond the face⟳ recognition sphere and is the essential foundation of expression analysis and labiomancy technology.”

CEFR level