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Subject: cryptesthesia: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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Oct. 31, 2014

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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