oneiromancy.

The interpretation of dreams as a means of predicting events or discovering hidden knowledge.

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Words that belong together

• practice oneiromancy
• ancient oneiromancy
• oneiromancy and prophecy

On the page

Through oneiromancy, the seer interpreted the flooded staircase as an omen of loss.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror / gothic literary. Lexical Type: Word. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Commonness: rare (editorial estimate; not a corpus frequency statistic). Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1; numbered fields keep each relevant meaning separate. Research distinction: Divination by dreams; Collins specifies interpretation of dreams. Does not mean all psychological dream analysis. Individual writer usefulness checked for a distinct physical, ritual, facial or acoustic function. Definitions/examples are original; genre suitability is not an inherent emotional rating. Writing functions: precise physical or ritual description, gothic scene construction.