crystal gazing

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   staring into a crystal ball to arouse visions of future or distant events

   Broaderprophecy

Questions about crystal gazing

What does crystal gazing mean?

crystal gazing means "staring into a crystal ball to arouse visions of future or distant events".

Is crystal gazing a common word?

crystal gazing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.