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CHIROMANCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chiromancy mean? 

CHIROMANCY (noun)
  The noun CHIROMANCY has 1 sense:

1. telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the handplay

  Familiarity information: CHIROMANCY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CHIROMANCY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

chirology; chiromancy; palm reading; palmistry

Hypernyms ("chiromancy" is a kind of...):

divination; foretelling; fortune telling; soothsaying (the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means)

Derivation:

chiromance (divine by reading someone's palms)

chiromancer (fortuneteller who predicts your future by the lines on your palms)

chiromantic (of or relating to palmistry)


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