Meaning & use
Onomancy
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The practice of predicting a person's character or future by analyzing the letters of their name.
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The fortune teller practiced onomancy, claiming that the letters in a baby's name revealed clues about its destiny.
Skeptics dismiss onomancy as pseudoscience with no basis in actual linguistics.
A note on using this word
The word combines the Greek "onoma" (name) with the suffix "-mancy" (divination), the same suffix found in "necromancy" and "chiromancy."
Words with a similar meaning
nomancy
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