Seance Definition

sāäns, -äɴs
seances
noun
seances
A meeting of people to receive spiritualistic messages.
American Heritage
A meeting at which a medium seeks to communicate with the spirits of the dead.
Webster's New World
A meeting, session, or sitting, as of a learned or legislative body.
American Heritage
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Noun

Singular:
seance
Plural:
sances, seances

Origin of Seance

  • French a sitting from Old French seoir to sit from Latin sedēre sed- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French séance (“sitting, session”).

    From Wiktionary

Seance Sentence Examples

  • A seance is a session where a group of people, called sitters, come together in an attempt to contact and communicate with deceased humans who are believed to be spirits and exist in a dimension outside of our physical time-space reality.

  • Interestingly enough, Conan Doyle himself "appeared" in photographs taken after his death and he was "contacted" on at least one occasion during a seance.

  • When asked about the inn's latest guest paranormal activity, Staub said, "Our re-creation of a Victorian seance was one way civilians dealt with the great loss of loved ones."

  • A Ouija board seance is a combination of two controversial methods for attempting to contact and communicate with spirits.

  • Most people who participate in a seance are trying to make contact with dead people, possibly friends or relatives.

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Words Starting With

SSESEA

Words Ending With

ECENCE

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