psychometry

The supposed ability or art of divining information about people or events associated with an object solely by touching or being near to it.

The power, fancied to be possessed by some sensitive persons, of catching impressions from contact which enable them to describe the properties of medicines, the vital forces of any part of the human constitution, the character, physiological condition, etc., of persons whose autographs or photographs are touched, and the scenes associated with any substance investigated.

The measurement of the duration of psychic processes.

The art of measuring the duration of mental processes, or of determining the time relations of mental phenomena.

The paranormal ability to discover information about an object's past, and especially about its past owners, merely by handling it.