psychometry

English

Etymology

From psycho- + -metry.

Noun

psychometry (plural psychometries)

1. The paranormal ability to discover information about an object's past, and especially about its past owners, merely by handling it.
2. (psychology) The use of psychological tests to measure intelligence, abilities, attitudes, and personality traits.

Synonyms

• (the use of psychological tests to measure traits): psychometrics

Translations

paranormal ability

• Chinese: 接觸感應
• Croatian: psihometrija
• Danish: psykometri, genstandslæsning
• Dutch: psychometrie (nl)
• Finnish: psykoskopia, psykometria
• French: psychométrie
• German: Psychometrie
• Italian: psicometria (it)

• Japanese: サイコメトリー
• Polish: psychometria
• Portuguese: psicometria (pt)
• Romanian: psihometrie (ro)
• Spanish: psicometría
• Swedish: psykometri (sv)
• Turkish: psikometri (tr)

use of psychological tests to measure intelligence, abilities, attitudes, and personality traits

• Czech: psychometrie (cs) f

• Irish: síciméadracht (ga) f

See also

• psychrometry