palmistry

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the claimed practice of interpreting the lines and features of a person's palm to describe character or predict the future

   The fortune-teller used palmistry to offer each visitor a dramatic prediction.

From Middle English palmestrie, built from palm + -ist + -ry. The term names divination by reading the hand's lines, mounts, and shape; chiromancy, from Greek kheir ('hand') + manteia ('divination'), is a learned synonym.

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