deuteroscopy
Etymology
From deutero- + -scopy.
deuteroscopy means That which is seen at a second view; a meaning beyond the literal sense, ulterior signification. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 67 out of 100.
Why this word is great
DEUTEROSCOPY — [Noun] The perception of a meaning only upon a second or deeper consideration, or the faculty of such second sight. From the Greek deuteros ("second") and skopia ("viewing, observation"). Unlike "connotation," which is a word's inherent penumbra of associated feeling, or "clairvoyance," which claims supernatural vision, deuteroscopy is the deliberate, often unsettling, art of intellectual re-seeing. It is the delayed shiver of comprehension upon re-reading a line of poetry, the ominous pattern that emerges only after the third recounting of a dream, or the historian discerning the true cause of a war not in treaties but in grain harvests. It is the quiet proof that truth is a creature of afterthought, saved for those who suspect the world is written in palimpsest.
noun
- That which is seen at a second view; a meaning beyond the literal sense, ulterior signification.“For not attaining the deuteroscopy, and second intention of the words, they are fain to omit their superconsequencies, coherencies, figures, or tropologies; and are not sometime perswaded by fire beyond their literalities.”
- Second sight.“I felt by anticipation the horrors of the Highland seers, whom their gift of deuteroscopy compels to witness things unmeet for mortal eye […]”