psychics
Clairvoyants for hire
Psychics are people who claim supernatural abilities to perceive information hidden from ordinary senses—reading minds, sensing the future, or communicating with the dead.
The term often carries skepticism: She doesn't believe in psychics.
As an adjective, psychic describes these purported abilities: psychic powers, psychic readings.
The noun also names the field itself: He's interested in psychics and the paranormal.
Extrasensory perception ability
- telepathyDirect mental communication
- precognitionParanormal future awareness
- extrasensoryBeyond ordinary perception
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
psychometry · clairaudience · clairsentience · mindreading · fortunetelling · divination · prophecy · foresight
Ritual to contact spirits
- spiritualismCommunion with the deceased
- ghostsSpirits of the deceased
- afterlifeExistence beyond mortality
- spiritsLiquor or apparitions
channeling · apparition · ectoplasm · messages · communication · trance · possession · spiritualist
One who predicts futures
- mediumMiddle size or state
- clairvoyantOne who perceives beyond senses
- seerOne who envisions futures
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
palmist · channeler · mystic · shaman · healer · mentalist · soothsayer · prophet
Direct emergency phone connection
- neonInert illuminating element
- storefrontRetail facade facing street
- infomercialExtended TV sales broadcast
- readingsDisplayed measurements or interpretations
consultations · parlor · carnival · boardwalk · TV · predictions · celebrity · Hollywood
clairvoyance
Extrasensory perception ability
- telepathyDirect mental communication
- precognitionParanormal future awareness
- extrasensoryBeyond ordinary perception
premonition · psychometry · clairaudience · clairsentience · mindreading · fortunetelling · divination · prophecy · foresight · intuition
seance
Ritual to contact spirits
- spiritualismCommunion with the deceased
- ghostsSpirits of the deceased
- afterlifeExistence beyond mortality
spirits · channeling · apparition · ectoplasm · messages · communication · trance · possession · spiritualist · necromancy
fortuneteller
One who predicts futures
- mediumMiddle size or state
- clairvoyantOne who perceives beyond senses
- seerOne who envisions futures
oracle · palmist · channeler · mystic · shaman · healer · mentalist · soothsayer · prophet · diviner
hotline
Direct emergency phone connection
- neonInert illuminating element
- storefrontRetail facade facing street
- infomercialExtended TV sales broadcast
readings · consultations · parlor · carnival · boardwalk · TV · predictions · celebrity · Hollywood · police
debunking
Proving claims false
- fraudIntentional criminal trickery
- hoaxDeliberate deception for effect
- charlatanFaker claiming false expertise
trickery · placebo · pseudoscience · Houdini · skeptic · expose · scam · deception · gullibility · illusion
- New Agecrystals, auras, reiki, tarot, astrology
- psychicsfortune teller, clairvoyant, clairvoyants, medium, mediums
- superhumanssuperhumans, metahumans, superheroes, supervillains, mutants
- paranormalghosts, paranormal, haunting, poltergeist, apparition
- divinationdivination, fortune telling, fortune-telling, fortune teller, tarot
- occultistswitches, wizards, sorcerers, sorceresses, warlocks
psychicsscientists
Systematic knowledge seekers
empiricists · skeptics · rationalists · researchers · materialists
- psychic readingClaimed supernatural insight session
- psychic powersExtrasensory mental faculties
- psychic abilityExtrasensory perception capacity
- fake psychicOne feigning supernatural insight
- psychic abilitiesSupernatural mental powers
- psychic healingAlleged mental-power medicine