This page gathers the 159 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Pseudoscience”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples. Page 2 of 2: from “precognition” to “Yliaster”.
- precognition noun Knowledge of the future; understanding of something in advance, especially as a form of supernatural or extrasensory perception.
- prima materia noun The primitive formless base of all matter, which is the starting material required for the magnum opus and the creation of the…
- projection noun A supposed mechanism for the transmutation of large quantities of base metals.
- prosopopesis noun A sudden and profound change of an individual's personality, whether spontaneous or induced e.g. in hypnosis.
- psi noun A form of psychic energy.
- psychic noun A person who supposedly contacts the dead; a medium.
- psychograph noun A photographic image having a supposed supernatural or spiritual origin.
- psychographer noun A medium able to psychograph (to have one's body possessed by spirits in order to let them write texts in the physical world).
- psychographic adj Relating to seances or occult communication.
- psychography noun The act of a spirit possessing one's physical body in order to write something.
- psychometric noun An individual capable of psychometry.
- psychometry noun The paranormal ability to discover information about an object's past, and especially about its past owners, merely by handling it.
- psychophony noun Vocal communication with the dead or with spirits.
- pyrokinesis noun The ability to set objects or people on fire or to supernaturally project fire from one's own being through the concentration of psychic…
- quintessence noun The fifth alchemical element, or essence, after earth, air, fire, and water that fills the universe beyond the terrestrial sphere.
- rapid-onset gender dysphoria noun A controversial and scientifically unsupported subset of gender dysphoria claimed to be caused by social influence.
- rebis noun The end product of the alchemical magnum opus, a reunion of opposing qualities such as spirit and matter or male and female, represented by…
- remote sensing noun Remote viewing.
- reparative therapy noun Synonym of conversion therapy.
- rescue circle noun A group of spiritualists that hold sittings in order to help confused spirits of the dead to accept the fact that they are dead.
- residual haunting noun A haunting in which a specter repeats a loop of its past, with no semblance of intelligence or consciousness.
- rope worm noun An intestinal worm, purported to cause various conditions but especially autism; typically identified with strands of intestinal mucus…
- rubedo noun A "reddening" process, the fourth and final major stage of the alchemical magnum opus.
- saturn noun Lead (the metal).
- saturnine adj Synonym of leaden, of or related to the metal lead, associated with the planet Saturn in European alchemy.
- socionics noun A theory of information processing and personality type, distinguished by its information model of the psyche and a model of interpersonal…
- sol noun Gold.
- sophic mercury noun An alloy of gold and mercury with a branch-like structure created by George Starkey, viewed as a precursor to the philosopher's stone.
- spirit noun Any of the four substances: sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, and arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).
- spirit communication noun The practice of living humans purportedly speaking or otherwise communicating with spirits of deceased individuals, as through seances…
- spirit of wine noun Aqua vitae prepared by distilling wine.
- spirit photography noun The purported art of taking photographs of the spirits of dead people, other spiritual entities, ectoplasm, auras, and the like; a common…
- subtle body noun The embodiment of the soul or mind; part of the bodymind of the human being in syncretic, esoteric philosophy.
- supergression noun excess, exaltation
- superliminal adj Of, pertaining to, or involving a supposed kind of awareness which is above and beyond the experiential range of normal consciousness.
- table-turning noun The practice, at a séance, of the participants sitting around a table with their hands upon it, waiting for it to rotate and spell out…
- technopath noun A person with techno-telepathic ability, capable of reading the electrical signals of devices, such as computers, around them.
- telempath noun Someone able to sense the emotions of others by paranormal means; someone who has the power of telempathy.
- telepath noun A person with telepathic ability, capable of reading the thoughts of others around them. Telepaths also have the ability to project thought.
- telepathize verb To establish contact with or to receive via telepathy.
- telepathy noun The capability to communicate directly by psychic means; the sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of…
- theozoology noun An Ariosophic theory that Aryans descend from celestial beings, and that inferior races are hybrids between Aryans and apes.
- thought transference noun The supposed ability to transmit thoughts, images, or mental states directly from one mind to another without any known sensory channel.
- thought-form noun A manifestation of the thoughts, ideas or emotions of someone. It is believed to be able to be sensed by people and take physical form…
- tincture noun An immaterial substance or spiritual principle which was thought capable of being instilled into physical things; also, the essence or…
- transmutation noun The supposed transformation of one element into another, especially of a base metal into gold.
- universal solvent noun The alkahest, a theorized substance that would be able to dissolve any other substance.
- urinal noun A glass vial used for examining or storing urine.
- veil noun That which separates the living and the spirit world.
- Velikovskyism noun A pseudohistorical interpretation of ancient history and mythology as shaped by catastrophic cosmic events.
- venus noun Copper (a reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element).
- vibration noun A vibrational energy of spiritual nature through which mediumistic and other paranormal phenomena are conveyed or affected.
- vibratory adj Of or relating to vibrations of a spiritual, etheric, or astral nature.
- walk in noun A person whose original soul has departed the body and been replaced with another.
- water noun The aforementioned liquid, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.
- white snow noun Synonym of zinc oxide, particularly white forms.
- wind noun One of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans; air.
- xanthosis noun Synonym of citrinitas.
- Yliaster noun Prime matter, consisting of body and soul.