Dictionary

mediumistic en · ADJ

Etymology

From medium + -istic.

Meanings

1. Of or pertaining to mediums (people claiming to contact the dead); relating to or having the ability to communicate with spirits.
   • I don’t imagine either of these young women has mediumistic gifts? 1959, Shirley Jackson, chapter 7, in The Haunting of Hill House, London: Michael Joseph, published 1960:
   • Mr. Michie’s wife is mediumistic and liable to be controlled. One day an entity came to her and spoke through her to her husband […] 1921, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 9, in The Wanderings of a Spiritualist, London: Hodder and Stoughton, pages 199–200:
   • 1852, E. C. Rogers, Philosophy of Mysterious Agents, Human and Mundane, Boston: Redding, No. 1, p. 88, Fear of the world, fear of man individually, fear of loss of property or station, would all interfere, and prevent them from giving to their fellow-men, teachings, that their more receptive and mediumistic minds had been capable of receiving.
   • Then there is that queer practice of the whites, psychometry, by which mediumistic people claim they can, by handling any object, tell events that occurred to the owner of it. 1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 60:

Forms

Deriveds

mediumistically · unmediumistic

Relateds

mediumism

Translations (1)

fr médiumnique (Of or pertaining to mediums)