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Film vs Thoughtography - What's the difference?

film | thoughtography |

As nouns the difference between film and thoughtography

is that film is photographic film while thoughtography is the supposed psychic ability of imprinting images onto film.

film

English

(wikipedia film)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
    • a clear plastic film for wrapping food
  • * Alexander Pope
    • He from thick films shall purge the visual ray.
  • (photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.
  • A motion picture.
  • A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film .

    Synonyms

    * (motion picture) movie

    Derived terms

    * filmic * filmmaker * filmmaking * filmography * filmology * filmy * on film

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To record a motion picture on photographic film
    • "A Hollywood studio was filming on-location in NYC."
  • To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
  • *
    • It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.

    Descendants

    * Japanese: * Lao: * Thai:

    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words ----

    thoughtography

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The supposed psychic ability of imprinting images onto film.
  • * 1974 , Edgar D Mitchell, John Warren White, Psychic Exploration
    • ...thoughtography might be regarded merely as an unusual means of registration of a still-mysterious phenomenon...
  • * 1982 , Hilary Evans, Intrusions: Society and the Paranormal
    • Can one discern a hard and fast line between the thoughtography of Ted Serios and old-fashioned spirit photography?