metopomancy
nounUK /mɪˈtɒpəmænsi/ · US /mɪˈtɑpəmænsi/
Etymology From French métopomantie (from Ancient Greek μέτωπον (métōpon, “forehead”)), later reformed after + -mancy.
1
Historical Divination by interpreting the facial lines and wrinkles, especially the forehead.
- These elaborate systems of divination, with their subdivisions, such as divination by moles on the face, or lines on the forehead (metopomancy), had been set out in many medieval treatises […].1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 231:
- Synonyms
- metoposcopy