HomeServicesBlogDictionariesContactSpanish Course
Back to search

Psychometry

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. The paranormal ability to discover information about an object's past, and especially about its past owners, merely by handling it.
  2. The use of psychological tests to measure intelligence, abilities, attitudes, and personality traits.

Equivalents

Españolpsicometría
Françaispsychométrie
12 more languages

Examples

“"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."”
Then there is that queer practice of the whites, psychometry, by which mediumistic people claim they can, by handling any object, tell events that occurred to the owner of it.”
“In psychometry and paedometry his original contributions will be little unless he had equipped himself well with the subjects like mathematics and statistics.”
Again, barring in a few universities psychometry and physiological psychology are not regarded as compulsory papers.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
See all C1 English words →

See also

Learn this word in context

See Psychometry used in real conversations inside our free language course.

Start Free Course

Know this word better than we do? Language is a living thing — help us keep it growing. Collaborate with Babel Free