The practice of divining the future or making decisions by interpreting random words, chance remarks, or passages; sortilege by words.
From Greek klēdōn (a chance utterance, omen) plus -ism (a practice or system). From Greek roots meaning 'chance hearing' or 'listening to fate,' used for divination by random speech.
In ancient Greece, if someone overheard a random conversation and thought it predicted their future, that was cledonism—it's basically superstition turned into a religion. Modern fortune tellers use similar logic: finding meaning in random events.
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