Imprint vs Thoughtography - What's the difference?
imprint | thoughtography |
An impression; the mark left behind by printing something.
The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house.
A distinctive marking, symbol or logo.
To leave a print, impression, image, etc.
* Prior
* Cowper
* John Locke
To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's mother is.
To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed.
The supposed psychic ability of imprinting images onto film.
* 1974 , Edgar D Mitchell, John Warren White, Psychic Exploration
* 1982 , Hilary Evans, Intrusions: Society and the Paranormal
As nouns the difference between imprint and thoughtography
is that imprint is an impression; the mark left behind by printing something while thoughtography is the supposed psychic ability of imprinting images onto film.As a verb imprint
is to leave a print, impression, image, etc.imprint
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) empreinte, from the past participle of empreindre, from (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- The day left an imprint in my mind.
- The shirts bore the company imprint on the right sleeve.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) empreinter, from the past participle of empreindre, from (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- For a fee, they can imprint the envelopes with a monogram.
- And sees his num'rous herds imprint her sands.
- Nature imprints upon whate'er we see, / That has a heart and life in it, "Be free."
- ideas of those two different things distinctly imprinted on his mind
thoughtography
English
Noun
(-)- ...thoughtography might be regarded merely as an unusual means of registration of a still-mysterious phenomenon...
- Can one discern a hard and fast line between the thoughtography of Ted Serios and old-fashioned spirit photography?