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onomatechny

onomatechny noun: prognostication by the letters of a name; onomancy.

Noun

onomatechny (uncountable)

  1. (rare) prognostication by the letters of a name; onomancy
    • To these questions it is scarcely necessary to say that all the researches of onomatechny cannot supply even the beginning of an answer1904, The International Quarterly
    • ...believing that there was a mystical connection between things and their names. Plato was a firm believer in this form of augury or onomatechy1906, A Key to Puzzledom ; Or, Complete Handbook of the Enigmatic Art

Origin of onomatechny

Ancient Greek

Questions about onomatechny

What does onomatechny mean?
Onomatechny means prognostication by the letters of a name; onomancy.
What part of speech is onomatechny?
Onomatechny is a noun.

Words near onomatechny in the dictionary

  1. onomasticon
  2. onomasticons
  3. onomastics
  4. onomasts
  5. onomatapoeia
  6. onomatechny
  7. onomato-
  8. onomatoclast
  9. onomatoclasts
  10. onomatodox
  11. onomatodoxy

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