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psychophony

psychophony noun: vocal communication with the dead or with spirits.

Noun

psychophony (uncountable)

  1. Vocal communication with the dead or with spirits.
    • Their motives are perhaps not entirely laudable and probably they are being fooled; but even if they are not getting authentic messages from the dead, yet some queer things have happened and are happening as a result of psychophony.1922, Harper's Monthly Magazine, volume 145, page 679
    • In this way the ancient knowledge of Pythagoras is applied in the most modern form of psychophony, and in this way, for the first time in the existence of the present world, the special mind-power vibrations which you require are reproduced on the invisible ether, at your command, by the use of the...1996, C. De Radwan, The Secret of Mind Power and How to Use It, →ISBN, page 48
  2. The appearance of voices or meaningful sounds in the white noise on electronic recordings; electronic voice phenomenon (EVP).
    • They started their own research at the beginning of the seventies, after hearing of Jürgenson's voices, and since then they have indefatigably dedicated a lot of their time and energy to research, particularly in the field of psychophony, as the phenomenon is known in Spain.2010, Anabela Cardoso, Electronic Voices: Contact with Another Dimension?, →ISBN, pages 45–46
    • Then there was the EVP (Psychophony), that, as I checked on the Internet, is still practised now.2014, Enrico Catalucci, The book of Hanni, →ISBN

Examples of psychophony in a sentence

  • The third is the message of one or more spirits, which in psychophony is identified only as a spiritual friend.2011, Group of Ethics Studies, The Ethics of Jesus Christ, →ISBN:
  • "That psychophony we recorded from Laura's mother, I've been thinking about it a lot..."2015, Enrique Laso, Hell Calling II, →ISBN:
  • Like a sort of ghostly psychophony, Dylan in Between collects the 'residual sound' some people claim to perceive in the short breaks separating the songs on a Bob Dylan vinyl record.2015, F. Javier Panera Cuevas, Bu Bir Aşk Şarkısı Değil [This is Not A Love Song], →ISBN, page 145:

Origin of psychophony

From psycho- (“mind”) + -phony (“voice”).

Words formed from psychophony

Questions about psychophony

What does psychophony mean?
Psychophony means vocal communication with the dead or with spirits.
How do you use psychophony in a sentence?
The third is the message of one or more spirits, which in psychophony is identified only as a spiritual friend.
What part of speech is psychophony?
Psychophony is a noun.

Words near psychophony in the dictionary

  1. psychophobic
  2. psychophonetic
  3. psychophonetically
  4. psychophonetics
  5. psychophonic
  6. psychophony
  7. psychophor
  8. psychophylaxis
  9. psychophysic
  10. psychophysical
  11. psychophysical parallelism

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