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pedomancy

pedomancy noun: divination by examining the soles of the feet.

Noun

pedomancy (uncountable)

  1. Divination by examining the soles of the feet.
    • May 13, 1975, Norman Mailer, letter to William f. Buckley, Jr.
      Needless to say, “midden,” if we are to translate, is the stuff through which one is trying to walk in that footless stocking while the editors of National Review are failing to bite the bullet and forsake all squalid pegomancy for...
    Synonyms:
    podomancy

Synonyms of pedomancy

Origin of pedomancy

From pedo- (“foot”) + -mancy.

Questions about pedomancy

What does pedomancy mean?
Pedomancy means divination by examining the soles of the feet.
What part of speech is pedomancy?
Pedomancy is a noun.

Words near pedomancy in the dictionary

  1. pedological
  2. pedologically
  3. pedologist
  4. pedologists
  5. pedology
  6. pedomancy
  7. pedometer
  8. pedometers
  9. pedometre
  10. pedometres
  11. pedometric

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