Why this word is great
TASSEOMANCY — [Noun] A form of divination that interprets patterns in tea leaves, coffee grounds, or wine sediments. From French tasse ("cup") + -mancy ("divination"), derived from Greek manteia ("prophecy"), it is the art of reading fate in the dregs of a drink. Unlike "tasseography" (which leans toward cataloging symbols) or "scrying" (which gazes into polished voids), tasseomancy is intimate, tactile—a communion with the residue of what we consume. It is the dark swirl of tea leaves clinging to porcelain like a half-formed constellation, the bitter sediment of coffee pooling into a Rorschach of possibility, or the last drops of wine staining the glass with the ghost of a future yet to unfold. In the bottom of every cup, the universe whispers in stains.