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seance

seance

4 8.6
A meeting where people try to talk with the spirits of the dead, often using a medium
  • noun
  • /seɪˈɑːns/
translation icon : sesión
  • Every Friday night, they would host a seance to attempt to reach the spirits using a medium.
  • hold a seance
  • go to a seance

I've done loads of fake seances, which is so much fun.

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Examples

  • Start the seance.

  • She had a group of people who held seances with her every Sunday for many years.

  • Honey, that seance was my warning.

  • - Hey, how was your seance?

  • Well, do you remember our last seance in the cemetery?

  • I think they should hold a seance and they should channel the spirit of Paul Volcker.

  • But then ever since we did that seance, she's been acting very, very strange.

  • Well... if you're interested, we do a candlelight seance at eight o'clock.

  • "Is he conducting free seances?" I smiled at her again, but this time a little guardedly.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • The phenomenon you so rightly observed was the byproduct of a seance the four of us, along with your Professor Broom, were involved in just before the war.

Synonyms

sitting
vsseance
34 1.0

A time when people sit together for a task like a photo or meeting

is a meeting aiming to contact spirits, not just a routine seated gathering

How Spiritual

ritual
418 4.6
seance
4 8.6
ceremony
901 2.5
gathering
203 1.0
meeting
1.0

Surface Forms

seance singular
seances plural

Etymology

The word seance comes from the French séance, which means 'sitting' or 'session' and comes from a verb meaning 'to sit'. So a seance is a 'sitting' with a medium, a meeting where people try to communicate with the spirits of the dead.