omphalopsychics

Noun

omphalopsychic (plural omphalopsychics)

1. (rare) Someone who engages in omphaloskepsis, a navel-gazer.
   • In many convents of the Greek Church it has been practised since the eleventh century, as it is still by the Omphalopsychics, with whom hypnotic reverie is obtained by steadily gazing at the umbilicus.1892 January, Ernest Hart, “Hypnotism and Humbug”, in The Nineteenth Century, volume 31, number 179, page 24

See all 2 meanings of omphalopsychic