Why this word is great
MEDIUMSHIP — [Noun] The purported practice or ability of serving as an intermediary, mediating communication between the spirits of the dead and the living. From medium (from Latin medium, neuter of medius, "middle," here meaning "an intermediary") + the noun-forming suffix -ship (denoting state, condition, or skill). Unlike "channeling," which often implies a vacant vessel, a conscious self displaced, or "clairvoyance," which denotes a singular, sharp faculty of sight, mediumship is the enacted role, the formalized ritual of the go-between. It is the cold draft in a sealed parlor, the planchette’s hesitant skate across the board, and the unverifiable detail—a childhood nickname—spoken in a stranger’s voice. It is the profession of hope that the membrane between here and gone is permeable, a performance of solace where the final curtain can never be drawn.