English Dictionary

psychometry

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

(parapsychology) The paranormal ability to discover information about an object's past, and especially about its past owners, merely by handling it.

日本語の意味

超常現象の一分野で、物体に触れることでその過去や所有者に関する情報、出来事などを超常的に感知する能力

Her reputation for psychometry drew collectors who hoped she could reveal the secret histories of their inherited objects.

彼女は、物体に触れることでその過去や特に以前の所有者に関する情報を知るという超常的な能力で評判を得ており、相続した品物の隠された歴史を明らかにしてほしいと望む収集家たちを引き寄せていた。

意味（1）

(parapsychology) 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.

意味（2）

(psychology) 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.

psychometries （ plural ）