Divination vs Psychic - What's the difference?
divination | psychic |
(uncountable) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events.
The apparent art of discovering secrets or the future by preternatural means.
(countable) An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction.
A person who possesses, or appears to possess, extra-sensory abilities such as precognition, clairvoyance and telepathy, or who appears to be susceptible to paranormal or supernatural influence.
A person who supposedly contacts the dead. A medium.
(gnosticism) In gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man the second type; a person focused on intellectual reality (the other two being hylic and pneumatic).
Relating to the abilities of a psychic.
Relating to the psyche.
* 1967 , , The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise
As nouns the difference between divination and psychic
is that divination is (uncountable) the act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events while psychic is a person who possesses, or appears to possess, extra-sensory abilities such as precognition, clairvoyance and telepathy, or who appears to be susceptible to paranormal or supernatural influence.As an adjective psychic is
relating to the abilities of a psychic.divination
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(en adjective)- You must be psychic - I was just about to say that.
- She is a psychic person - she hears messages from beyond.
- A pathological process called 'psychiatrosis' may well be found, by the same methods, to be a delineable entity, with somatic correlates, and psychic mechanisms