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CHIROMANCY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand
Synonyms:
chirology; chiromancy; palm reading; palmistry
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
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)
