"spirit communication" meaning in English

See spirit communication in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: spirit communications [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} spirit communication (countable and uncountable, plural spirit communications)
  1. (parapsychology) The practice of living humans purportedly speaking or otherwise communicating with spirits of deceased individuals, as through seances, mediums, etc. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Parapsychology
    Sense id: en-spirit_communication-en-noun-L0Ov~16K Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: parapsychology, pseudoscience

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spirit communications",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "spirit communication (countable and uncountable, plural spirit communications)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Parapsychology",
          "orig": "en:Parapsychology",
          "parents": [
            "Forteana",
            "Pseudoscience",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:",
          "text": "On the other hand, Charles Mason was a loyal son of the Anglican Church, and was the spokesman of a host of others, including such weighty names as Lodge and Barrett among the laymen, or Wilberforce, Haweis and Chambers among the clergy, who clung fast to the old teachings while admitting the fact of spirit communication.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The practice of living humans purportedly speaking or otherwise communicating with spirits of deceased individuals, as through seances, mediums, etc."
      ],
      "id": "en-spirit_communication-en-noun-L0Ov~16K",
      "links": [
        [
          "parapsychology",
          "parapsychology"
        ],
        [
          "practice",
          "practice"
        ],
        [
          "purportedly",
          "purportedly"
        ],
        [
          "spirit",
          "spirit"
        ],
        [
          "deceased",
          "deceased"
        ],
        [
          "seance",
          "seance"
        ],
        [
          "medium",
          "medium"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(parapsychology) The practice of living humans purportedly speaking or otherwise communicating with spirits of deceased individuals, as through seances, mediums, etc."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "parapsychology",
        "pseudoscience"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "spirit communication"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spirit communications",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "spirit communication (countable and uncountable, plural spirit communications)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Parapsychology"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:",
          "text": "On the other hand, Charles Mason was a loyal son of the Anglican Church, and was the spokesman of a host of others, including such weighty names as Lodge and Barrett among the laymen, or Wilberforce, Haweis and Chambers among the clergy, who clung fast to the old teachings while admitting the fact of spirit communication.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The practice of living humans purportedly speaking or otherwise communicating with spirits of deceased individuals, as through seances, mediums, etc."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "parapsychology",
          "parapsychology"
        ],
        [
          "practice",
          "practice"
        ],
        [
          "purportedly",
          "purportedly"
        ],
        [
          "spirit",
          "spirit"
        ],
        [
          "deceased",
          "deceased"
        ],
        [
          "seance",
          "seance"
        ],
        [
          "medium",
          "medium"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(parapsychology) The practice of living humans purportedly speaking or otherwise communicating with spirits of deceased individuals, as through seances, mediums, etc."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "parapsychology",
        "pseudoscience"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "spirit communication"
}

Download raw JSONL data for spirit communication meaning in English (1.8kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (c15a5ce and 5c11237). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.