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Definition of "oneiromancy" [o•nei•ro•man•cy]

  • The practice of predicting the future through interpretation of dreams. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "oneiromancy" in a sentence
  • "This history, and many others, may serve to prove that the laws of the Jews did not forbid oneiromancy, that is to say, the science of dreams."
  • "It is like oneiromancy, or the explanation of dreams."
  • "Waking Life is much more like My Dinner With Andre, with philisophical conversations that range from the banal to the profound, involving Kierkegaard, Sarte, oneiromancy, Philip K. Dick, Gnosticism, how to be better at lucid dreaming, and so on."