CHIROMANCY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)