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psychometries

psychometries is the plural of psychometry.

Meaning of psychometry

Noun

psychometry (countable and uncountable, plural psychometries)

  1. The paranormal ability to discover information about an object's past, and especially about its past owners, merely by handling it.
    • "Their power and knowledge are as closely limited as ours. But this is not a matter for the spirit people. What I did then was psychometry, which, so far as we know, is a power of the human soul."1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019
  2. The use of psychological tests to measure intelligence, abilities, attitudes, and personality traits.
    • In psychometry and paedometry his original contributions will be little unless he had equipped himself well with the subjects like mathematics and statistics.1960, Indian Journal of Psychology, XXXV-XXXVII, page 25
    Synonyms:
    psychometrics

Questions about psychometries

What is psychometries the plural of?
Psychometries is the plural of psychometry.

Words near psychometries in the dictionary

  1. psychometrical
  2. psychometrically
  3. psychometrician
  4. psychometricians
  5. psychometrics
  6. psychometries
  7. psychometrist
  8. psychometrists
  9. psychometrize
  10. psychometrized
  11. psychometrizes

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