psychometry

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The use of psychological tests to measure intelligence, abilities, attitudes, and personality traits
The paranormal ability to discover information about an object's past, and especially about its past owners, merely by handling it
Psychometry is the ability to hold an object and sense its history from its vibrations
any branch of psychology concerned with psychological measurements
The art of measuring the duration of mental processes, or of determining the time relations of mental phenomena
Picking up emotions and/or information about a person or situation by holding an item owned by that person or related to that situation
The ability to sense the history and associations of an object
{i} measurement of intellectual ability and psychological traits through a series of tests
Perception beyond the primary five senses which comes from holding an object
Reading information from an object about events involving the person who owns it, usually by handling it
The ability to pickup vibrations providing information about the history, owner or owners of objects that one holds in one's hands
The process of holding an object and reading from it psychic impressions concerning the article or its owner
Divination by holding an object belonging to another person
the apparent ability of certain psychics to describe the history of a particular object and of people with which it has been in contact simply by holding that object
To touch an object with your hands and get information about the object, it's creator, its owner, or it's history
psychometrically
by psychometric examinations, by measuring intellectual ability and psychological traits
psychometry

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    psy·cho·me·try

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    Etymology

    [ sI-'kä-m&-trE ] (noun.) circa 1842. From Greek ψυχή, psukhē, (spirit, soul) + μέτρον, metron, (measure).
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