ホットリーディング

noun

hot reading

A technique in which a psychic or mentalist secretly gathers information about a person beforehand, then presents it as if obtained through psychic means during a performance. This is a specialized term used in discussions of cold reading, mentalism, and psychic fraud.

• ホットリーディングは、事じ前ぜんに調しらべた情じょう報ほうを霊れい能のう力りょくのように見みせかける手しゅ法ほうだ。

  Hot reading is a technique of presenting previously researched information as if it were psychic ability.

• あの占うらない師しはホットリーディングを使つかっていると批ひ判はんされた。

  That fortune teller was criticized for using hot reading.