• (n.) Same as Physiognomy, 1. • (n.) One skilled in physiognomy. • (n.) One who tells fortunes by physiognomy.
Phys`i·og'no·mist noun [ Confer French physiognomiste .] 1. One skilled in physiognomy. Dryden. 2. One who tells fortunes by physiognomy. Holland. Phys`i·og·nom'ist noun Same as Physiognomy , 1. 
physiognomist 1. Someone who practices physiognomy, a pseudoscience, based on the belief that the study and judgement of a person's outer appearance, primarily the face, reflects his/her character or personality. 2. Scientific correlation physiognomy, in which there are believed to be rough statistical correlations between physical features (espec...