as in psychic
a person who claims to speak with or for the spirits of the dead
the spiritualist claims merely to be the agency through which the spirit—or "control"—conveys its messages to the living
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Recent Examples of spiritualist
Hungry for food, Suzanne wanders into the empty trailer of the carnival’s veteran spiritualist and winds up being mistaken for her.
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Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 May 2026
The son of an astrologer (who abandoned him early on) and a spiritualist, London lived quite an adventurous life.
—René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 May 2026
Shot in Athens doubling as Tehran, Cast Aside the Clouds has Azizi playing Farhad Khosravi, a bookstore owner whose daughter Layla (Sehat) attends a secret university aligned with the Iranian Bahá’í spiritualist faith.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 1 May 2026
Kilmer appears as Father Fintan, a Catholic priest and Native American spiritualist.
—Shafiq Najib, ABC News, 15 Apr. 2026
Kilmer was cast as Father Fintan, a Catholic priest and Native American spiritualist.
—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 21 Mar. 2026
The actor will portray Father Fintan, a Native American spiritualist and Catholic priest.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 19 Mar. 2026
The actor was cast in Voorhees’s film years before his death as priest and spiritualist Father Fintan but never had a chance to step on set due to his throat cancer.
—Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
Disappointed with mainstream health care, Mihich sought help from energy healers, spiritualists, and other alternative-medicine practitioners and entrepreneurs, who regularly supported her aversion to psychiatric medications, according to Sarah and Torina.
—Elizabeth Bruenig, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2026
Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 May 2026
The son of an astrologer (who abandoned him early on) and a spiritualist, London lived quite an adventurous life.
—René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 May 2026
Shot in Athens doubling as Tehran, Cast Aside the Clouds has Azizi playing Farhad Khosravi, a bookstore owner whose daughter Layla (Sehat) attends a secret university aligned with the Iranian Bahá’í spiritualist faith.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 1 May 2026
Kilmer appears as Father Fintan, a Catholic priest and Native American spiritualist.
—Shafiq Najib, ABC News, 15 Apr. 2026
Kilmer was cast as Father Fintan, a Catholic priest and Native American spiritualist.
—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 21 Mar. 2026
The actor will portray Father Fintan, a Native American spiritualist and Catholic priest.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 19 Mar. 2026
The actor was cast in Voorhees’s film years before his death as priest and spiritualist Father Fintan but never had a chance to step on set due to his throat cancer.
—Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
Disappointed with mainstream health care, Mihich sought help from energy healers, spiritualists, and other alternative-medicine practitioners and entrepreneurs, who regularly supported her aversion to psychiatric medications, according to Sarah and Torina.
—Elizabeth Bruenig, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spiritualist
psychic
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Terazawa is working on her second novel, Curse Him, a surreal and tense autofiction accounting for three summer months of being scammed by psychics in a small Appalachian town.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
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For generations, people have turned to psychics, astrology charts or tarot cards for reassurance.—
Ziv Epstein,
Fortune,
16 May 2026
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“Spiritualist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiritualist. Accessed 27 May. 2026.
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