psychicism en · NOUN
Etymology
From psychic + -ism.
Meanings
- (uncountable) The study of psychic ability.
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(uncountable) Psychic ability.
They apparently have a theory that the indefinable psychic gift that they call magic, and which we might designate "psychicism", can be acquired by accosting the soul of a murdered man in a burial ground at midnight.
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 178: