noun
medium
A person claiming to communicate with the dead.
The medium claims to deliver messages from her clients' deceased relatives.
Etymology
The word means an intermediary. Spiritualist usage applies it to a person believed to act as a channel between the living and the dead.
More examples
- After her father died, she consulted a medium.
- Several mediums offered readings at the spiritualist gathering.
- He doubts the medium can actually communicate with the dead.
Forms
medium · mediums
mediumship noun — The practice of claiming communication with spirits.
Similar words
- psychic
- Claims supernatural perception, not necessarily communication with the dead.
- channeler
- Claims to relay messages from spirits or other nonphysical beings.