oneirologyn.
/ə(ʊ)ˌnʌɪˈrɒlədʒi/, U.S. /oʊˌnaɪˈrɑlədʒi/ The study of dreams, or of their interpretation.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > dream > [noun] > study or interpretation of
oneirocriticism1614
oneirocritics1614
oneiromancy1650
oneirocritic1744
oneirology1818
dream interpretation1846
oneiroscopy1887
oneirocrisy1976
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > interpretation of dreams > [noun]
songuary1383
conjecturec1384
sompnary?a1450
oneirocriticism1614
oneirocritics1614
oneiromancy1650
oneirocracy1653
oneirocritic1744
oneirology1818
reading1865
oneirocrisy1976
1818 T. McCrie Life Melville I. ii. 80 Melville was a believer in Oneirology and expert in the interpretation of dreams.
1849 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) II. 801/1 Oneiromancy..divination or foretelling of events by dreams; from the same source we have oneirology, the doctrine and theory of dreams.
1946 Social Forces 25 156/1 The assertion that China is a great historic nation is certainly not an expression exhumed from the realm of oneirology.
1998 G. H. Berghaus Ital. Futurist Theatre ii. iii. 178 The Futurist theory of the stage fitted in with..other modernist movements (Kandinsky's abstractionism.., Surrealist oneirology, etc.).
Derivatives
oneiˈrologist n. a person who studies dreams and their interpretation.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > dream > [noun] > study or interpretation of > one who studies or interprets
dream readera1387
dream doctor1545
dream interpreter?1611
dream-tellera1641
oneirocritica1652
dream-speller1652
oneiropolist1652
oneiromancer1653
oneiromantist1653
oneirocrite1693
oneirologist1834
oneiroscopist1889
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > interpretation of dreams > [noun] > one who practises
readerOE
dream readera1387
conjectora1425
dream doctor1545
dream interpreter?1611
conjecturer1612
dream-tellera1641
oneirocritica1652
dream-speller1652
oneiropolist1652
oneiromancer1653
oneiromantist1653
oneirocrite1693
oneiroscopist1727
oneirologist1834
1834 R. Southey Doctor II. 343 Artemidorus, not the oneirologist, but the great philosopher at the Court of the Emperor Sferamond.
1971 U. K. Le Guin Lathe of Heaven (1973) ii. 13 I'm a dream specialist. Literally. An oneirologist.
1995 P. Ilie Age of Minerva II. (Introduction) 9 The Spanish alchemist and oneirologist Diego de Torres Villarroel understood the link between mind and the so-called subtle matters such as aether.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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