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labiomancy

labiomancy noun: lipreading.

Noun

labiomancy (uncountable)

  1. Lipreading.
    • They are so proficient in labiomancy that they can follow a private conversation anywhere if they can see the speakers' faces.1892, Fibre & Fabric
    • 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...1898, Henry Charles Beeching, Pages from a Private Diary, page 286

Origin of labiomancy

From labio- + -mancy.

Questions about labiomancy

What does labiomancy mean?
Labiomancy means lipreading.
What part of speech is labiomancy?
Labiomancy is a noun.

Words near labiomancy in the dictionary

  1. labiolateral
  2. labiolaterally
  3. labiolingual
  4. labiolingually
  5. labiolinguals
  6. labiomancy
  7. labiomaxillary
  8. labiomedial
  9. labiomental
  10. labiomesial
  11. labiomesially

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