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psychographic

psychographic

9.9
Relating to automatic writing thought to come from spirits
  • adjective
  • /ˌsaɪkəˈɡræfɪk/
  • Archaic
translation icon : psicográfico
  • During the séance, a psychographic letter was produced, supposedly written by a deceased relative.

Examples

  • The medium claimed her psychographic abilities allowed her to write messages from the spirit world.

  • Researchers studied the psychographic writings to understand more about the phenomenon of automatic writing.

  • The medium claimed to have received a psychographic message.

  • She was fascinated by psychographic phenomena.

  • The medium demonstrated her psychographic skills by producing written messages that purportedly came from spirits.

  • At the event, participants were amazed by the psychographic text that was claimed to be composed by a spirit.

  • Historians examined the psychographic documents to investigate the historical practices of automatic writing.

Surface Forms

psychographic positive

Morphology

psychographic = psychography (opaque) = psycho + graph + ic

The adjective is formed regularly from psychography, but the source term is specialized and the spirit-writing sense is not inferable for an average learner.

Etymology

Psychographic comes from the parts psycho- meaning 'mind' and -graph meaning 'to write'. In spirit or medium work it describes 'writing that is said to come from a spirit or from automatic writing', so a psychographic text is claimed to be written by a spirit or by the mind without the person's control.