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felidomancy

felidomancy noun: divination by interpreting the appearance and behaviour of cats.

Noun

felidomancy (uncountable)

  1. Divination by interpreting the appearance and behaviour of cats.
    • FELIDOMANCY: Divination involving the behavior or actions of a cat, ranging from changes in weather to unexpected visitors, or other occurrences. Dating from the Middle Ages, many of these have survived as popular superstitions.[1973, Walter B. Gibson, Litzka R. Gibson, The Complete Illustrated Book of Divination and Prophecy, London: Souvenir Press, published 1987, →ISBN, page 317
    Synonyms:
    ailuromancy

Synonyms of felidomancy

Origin of felidomancy

From felid + -o- + -mancy.

Questions about felidomancy

What does felidomancy mean?
Felidomancy means divination by interpreting the appearance and behaviour of cats.
What part of speech is felidomancy?
Felidomancy is a noun.

Words near felidomancy in the dictionary

  1. felicitousness
  2. felicity
  3. Felicius
  4. felid
  5. Felidhoo
  6. felidomancy
  7. felids
  8. feliform
  9. feliforms
  10. Felin-fach
  11. Felin-hên

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