different between divination vs biokinesis

English

Etymology

From Old French divination, from Latin divinatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?v??ne???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

divination (countable and uncountable, plural divinations)

1. (uncountable) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events.
2. The apparent art of discovering secrets or the future by preternatural means.
3. (countable) An indication of what is to come in the future or what is secret; a prediction.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:divination

Derived terms

• star divination

Related terms

• divine
• predivination

Translations

See also

• Methods of divination on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Latin d?v?n?ti?.

Pronunciation

Noun

divination f (plural divinations)

1. divination

Further reading

• “divination” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Noun

divination f (plural divinations)

1. divination (act of divining)

Related terms

• diviner

English

Etymology

bio- +? -kinesis

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ba?o?k??nis?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ba???k??ni?s?s/
• Rhymes: -i?s?s
• Hyphenation: bio?ki?ne?sis

Noun

biokinesis (uncountable)

1. (political science) A political theory concerning the movement of populations as a basis for power.
2. (parapsychology, science fiction) The ability, through the use of psychic power, to affect organic matter on a microscopic level, to manipulate the physiology (e.g. heart rate, breathing, nervous system or brainwaves) and voluntary motor functions of other people or living organisms, inducing processes such as accelerated healing, etc.

Related terms

• biopathy
• macrokinesis
• psychokinesis
• telekinesis
• thermokinesis
• microkinesis