metagnomy

noun

me·​tag·​no·​my

-nəmē

plural -es

: divination

recent investigations … incline the student of psychic research toward a decidedly antispiritist explanation of metagnomy

—H. H. U. Cross

Word History

Etymology

French métagnomie, from méta- meta- + -gnomie -gnomy

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