Oneiromancy

Quick meaning: Oneiromancy is a noun meaning (uncountable, divination) Divination by the interpretation of dreams.

Meaning

(uncountable, divination) Divination by the interpretation of dreams.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable, loosely) The interpretation of dreams.
2. (countable, divination) An act of such divination or dream-interpretation.

Example Sentences

7. Did Aristotle's attitude to oneiromancy change? / In the foregoing sections we sketched the consistent and lucid oneirology which various indirect sources attribute to Aristotle.

The absence of oneiromancy among the divinatory techniques is justified by the fact that it occupies in Islam a higher place than that of divination in the sphere of religious inspiration.

2. Deductive Oneiromancy / This form of oneiromancy aims to decipher the messages contained in ordinary, everyday dreams, messages thought to presage future events in the life of the dreamer.

[…] Minerva must never be confused with Santa Maria, for all that they occupy the same discursive space, for all that they must occupy the same position in [Sigmund] Freud's account of the mind, any more than The Interpretation of Dreams can be confused with oneiromancies and dream-books of the past, or Freud's account of the Eternal City with [René] Descartes's.

Word Forms

• oneiromancies
• oneiromancie

Synonyms for oneiromancy

Depending on context, synonyms include oneirocriticism, oneirology, oneiroscopy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include oneiroscopy, divination, enoptromancy, ichnomancy, psychomancy, cheiromancy.

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