psychicism

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

psychic +‎ -ism

Noun[edit]

psychicism (uncountable)

  1. The study of psychic ability.
  2. Psychic ability.
    • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 178:
      They apparently have a theory that the indefinable psychic gift that they call magic, and which we might designate "psychicism", can be acquired by accosting the soul of a murdered man in a burial ground at midnight.

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