psychometristn.
/sʌɪˈkɒmᵻtrɪst/, U.S. /saɪˈkɑmətrəst/ 1. A person who supposedly possesses the ability to perform psychometry (psychometry n. 1); a person who practises psychometry. Cf. psychometer n. 2.
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the world > the supernatural > the paranormal > [noun] > power to divine by mere contact > one who
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psychometrician1866
1854 T. L. Harris Epic of Starry Heaven (ed. 3) p. xii Folding the paper into a small compass..Mr. Harris..placed it in the hands of Mrs. Mettler for her impressions. In a few moments the psychometrist was profoundly entranced.
1879 Spiritual Notes May 148/1 The psychometrist enters a room and is impressed with a vision of events that in some mysterious way have left their traces on its material fabric.
1900 Referee 4 Mar. 2 I enter into rivalry with the palmists and psychometrists and prophets and prophetesses.
1966 E. Palmer Plains of Camdeboo xvii. 289 Hearing of a psychometrist in Johannesburg, I took my piece of wood to her and asked her what she could tell me of its history.
1990 L. Picknett Encycl. Paranormal 244/1 Psychometrists like Peter Hurkos or Gérard Croiset were able on occasion to view the past as if it were still there.
2. = psychometrician n. 2.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > experimental psychology > measurement of mental states > [noun] > practitioner of
psychometrician1911
psychometrist1914
the mind > mental capacity > psychology > mental action or process > psychology of mental action > [noun] > measurement of mental phenomena > expert or practitioner
psychometrician1911
psychometrist1914
1914 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 25 572 Some of these methods have only in one or two cases been given a fair and accurate trial by unbiased yet expert psychometrists.
1932 Psychol. Exchange I. 11 The deserving psychometrists are often not discriminated from those who have just taken up mental testing.
1974 Maclean's May 12/2 He worked as a psychometrist measuring the abilities of children.
1994 Economist 24 Dec. 59/1 Some of the most illustrious psychometrists are..starting to argue that IQ tests should be replaced by physical tests.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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