mediumship
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- noun
- /ˈmiːdiəmˌʃɪp/
:
mediumnidad
- My mother practiced mediumship.
- spiritual mediumship
- telepathy and mediumship
I keep my mediumship abilities close like a bank vault when unless I am actively sitting down to read someone.
- I keep my mediumship abilities close like a bank vault when unless I am actively sitting down to read someone.
Examples
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Mediumship has once again become popular in the West, where it is now known as channeling.
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Building on this foundation, she next converted to Spiritualism and mediumship.
Academic text (2018) -
Clearly, then, mediumship is no simple matter.
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Spirit mediumship is the most significant role of a priest.
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According to Sakalava logic, mediumship is a permanent experience.
Academic text (1995) -
Many theories, none of them entirely satisfactory, have been suggested to account for mediumship.
Academic text (1990) -
Perhaps the two most dramatic and psychologically interesting techniques are the shamanic journey and mediumship.
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Spiritualism did add something new to the Nicholses’ arsenal of reform: Mary's mediumship.
Academic text (2018) -
Bette London attributes the "revival" in mediumship to World War I and notes that automatic writing was especially popular "when literary modernism was at its height" (2007, 625).
Academic text (2017) -
My mother practiced mediumship to connect with spirits during her sessions.
Synonyms
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Receiving messages from a spirit and telling them to other people
How Connected
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mediumship comes from the word medium, meaning 'middle' or a 'go-between', and the ending -ship, which shows a 'state' or 'skill' as in friendship. So, mediumship is the skill or state of acting as a channel between the living and the spirits of the dead.