Usually means: Technique for feigning personal insights.
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  1. cold reading: Wiktionary
  2. Cold Reading (The Twilight Zone), Cold Reading, Cold reading (theatrical), Cold reading: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cold Reading: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology
  2. cold reading: The Skeptic's Dictionary

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  1. cold reading: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (cold reading)

noun:  The technique, or an instance, of using likely guesses and assumptions, then narrowing in on any positive responses, in order to give the impression of having information about a person or event.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cold, reading.

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