psychographically
- adverb
- /saɪˈkoʊɡrəfɪkli/
- Archaic
- She claimed to have written the letter psychographically, with no conscious awareness of the words.
Examples
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During the session, the words were produced psychographically through her hand's movements.
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He wrote the poem psychographically during a trance.
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The message appeared psychographically on the page as the medium entered a trance.
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The artist created her work psychographically.
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The message appeared psychographically on the page as the medium entered a trance.
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She claimed to have written the letter psychographically, with no conscious awareness of the words.
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During the session, the words were produced psychographically through her hand's movements.
Surface Forms
Morphology
psychographically = psychographic (transparent) = psycho + graphic + ly
The word is a regular adverb formed from the adjective 'psychographic'.
Etymology
Psychographically comes from the parts psycho- 'mind' and -graphy 'writing', so it is like 'mind-writing' and like autograph where -graph means 'to write'. So, when a message appears psychographically it is seen as writing from the unconscious mind or produced by a medium without the person's conscious control.
