aeromancy

/ˈeə.ɹə.mæn.si/

Etymology

From Middle English aeremance, aermancye, aaeromancye, from Anglo-Norman aermancie and Middle French aerimancie, aeromance, ayromancie (modern French aéromancie), from Latin āeromantia. By surface analysis, aero- + -mancy.

aeromancy means Divination by use of atmospheric conditions. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

Why this word is great

AEROMANCY — [Noun] The practice of divination by interpreting atmospheric conditions and celestial phenomena. From Middle English, via Anglo-Norman and Middle French, ultimately from Latin āeromantia, from Greek aēr- ("air") + manteia ("divination"). Unlike meteorology, which dispassionately quantifies the sky's mechanics, or augury, which fixates on avian messengers, aeromancy reads the entire, mutable heavens as a text of impending fate. It is the shepherd discerning a shift in fortune from the bruised purple of a gathering front, the farmer feeling in an oppressive stillness the foreknowledge of a storm's ruin, or the desert mystic interpreting the precise geometry of a dust devil to locate an oasis—a testament to the ancient, human need to make the indifferent heavens speak directly to our fate.

noun

Divination by use of atmospheric conditions.“"If these apparitions are in the Ayre, then it is called Aeromancie." -- Astrologaster, J. Melton, 1620”