Meanings
nounthoughtography (uncountable)
- uncountableThe supposed psychic ability of imprinting images onto film.
Can one discern a hard and fast line between the thoughtography of Ted Serios and old-fashioned spirit photography?
1982, Hilary Evans, Intrusions: Society and the Paranormal1 more example
[…] thoughtography might be regarded merely as an unusual means of registration of a still-mysterious phenomenon […]
1974, Edgar D Mitchell, John Warren White, Psychic Exploration
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*teng-
- Proto-Germanic*þankijaną
- Proto-Germanic*þanhtaz
- Proto-West Germanic*þą̄ht
- Old Englishþōht
- Middle Englishthought
- Englishthought
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰéh₂os
- Proto-Hellenic*pʰáwos
- Ancient Greekφᾰ́ος (phắos)
- Ancient Greekφῶς (phôs)
- Ancient Greekφωτο- (phōto-)
- Proto-Indo-European*gerbʰ-
- Proto-Hellenic*grə́pʰō
- Ancient Greekγρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
- Frenchphotographie
- Englishphotography
- Englishthoughtography
Blend of thought + photography.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Japanese 念写
- 念写 (nensha)supposed psychic ability of imprinting images onto film
Korean 염사
- 염사 (yeomsa)supposed psychic ability of imprinting images onto film
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with thoughtography
photographybiographygeographybibliographypornographyfilmographydiscographyautobiographychromatographycryptographytopographyradiographytomographyoceanographytypographychoreographymammographycinematographyvideographycartographydemographyangiographylithographycrystallography
All rhymes →Cite this entry
APA
thoughtography. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thoughtography
MLA
“thoughtography.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thoughtography. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “thoughtography,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thoughtography.
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