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mind reading

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noun

the ability to discern the thoughts of others without the normal means of communication, especially by means of a preternatural power.

an act or the practice of so discerning the thoughts of another.

Origin of mind reading

First recorded in 1880–85

Also called thought reading.

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

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The mind-reading ability was just something that Stern had nervously imagined.
Martians Never Die
Lucius Daniel
Justice may, indeed, be said to be a necessary consequence of mind-reading.
To Whom This May Come
Edward Bellamy
An instance of Stuart C. Cumberland's mind-reading was cited.
The Right Knock
Helen Van-Anderson
He has been sitting here and saying to him self, Well, this is all mind-reading.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, May 1887
Various
And so she could in spirit, for her perceptions amounted almost to mind-reading.
Joyce's Investments
Fannie E. Newberry