cartomancy
/ˈkɑːtə(ʊ)ˌmansi
/noun [mass noun]
Fortune telling by interpreting a random selection of playing cards.Astrology, astrotherapy, biorhythms, cartomancy, chiromancy, the enneagram, fortune telling, graphology, rumpology, etc., seem to work because they seem to provide accurate personality analyses....
- Rumpology works the same way as astrology, cartomancy, metoposcopy, palmistry, and getting messages from ghosts.
- Alliette (writing under the name of Etteilla) was probably the most famous of the French writers on cartomancy (divination by cards) Abrégé de la Cartomancie.
Derivatives
cartomancer
- My life happened to intersect with the Tarot at an early age, so these days I'm a pretty decent cartomancer.
- These meanings are based on the traditional interpretations used by cartomancers for centuries.
- You don't have to be a prophet or a cartomancer to work that out; you just have to be completely detached.
Origin
Late 19th century: from French cartomancie, from carte 'card' + -mancie (see -mancy).