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English
Etymology
From medium + -istic.
Adjective
mediumistic (comparative more mediumistic, superlative most mediumistic)
- Of or pertaining to mediums (people claiming to contact the dead); relating to or having the ability to communicate with spirits.
- 1852, E. C. Rogers, Philosophy of Mysterious Agents, Human and Mundane, Boston: Redding, No. 1, p. 88,
- Fear of the world, fear of man individually, fear of loss of property or station, would all interfere, and prevent them from giving to their fellow-men, teachings, that their more receptive and mediumistic minds had been capable of receiving.
1921, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 9, in The Wanderings of a Spiritualist, London: Hodder and Stoughton, pages 199–200:Mr. Michie’s wife is mediumistic and liable to be controlled. One day an entity came to her and spoke through her to her husband […]
1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 60:Then there is that queer practice of the whites, psychometry, by which mediumistic people claim they can, by handling any object, tell events that occurred to the owner of it.
Translations
Of or pertaining to mediums