NEA New English Academy: October 2014

Friday, October 31, 2014

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cryptesthesia

\krip-tuhs-THEE-zhuh, -zhee-uh, -zee-uh\

noun
1. Psychology. allegedly paranormal perception, as clairvoyance or clairaudience.

Quotes

Some experts attribute the jerking of the rod to cryptesthesia, some to divine or devilish inspiration, others to unconscious muscular activity, “sympathy,” they call it, between the diviner and the object.
-- Michael Knight, Divining Rod, 2010

Origin

Coined in the 1920s, cryptesthesia is a combination of crypt(o)-, meaning "hidden," and esthesia referring to "capacity for sensation or feeling."

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