telepathy
communication between minds by some means other than sensory perception.
Origin of telepathy
1- Also called mental telepathy.
Other words from telepathy
- tel·e·path·ic [tel-uh-path-ik], /ˌtɛl əˈpæθ ɪk/, adjective
- tel·e·path·i·cal·ly, adverb
- non·tel·e·path·ic, adjective
- non·tel·e·path·i·cal·ly, adverb
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How to use telepathy in a sentence
How people feel confidence about the telepathic impression they receive is a further mystery.
Knocking on Heaven's Door: True Stories of Unexplained, Uncanny Experiences at the Hour of Death | Patricia Pearson | August 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTJerry Siegel initially conceived Superman as a Nietzschean über-mensch with telepathic powers who was bent on world domination.
‘Man of Steel,’ New Superman Movie Starring Henry Cavill, Falls Flat | Marlow Stern | June 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIt works like a telepathic Internet concierge, hoping to send you along to the most relevant results on the Web.
First you were telepathic and now you have the ability to draw the future.
When they had all seated themselves, Arcot began the telepathic questioning.
Islands of Space | John W Campbell
Once, before some ancient war of destruction, the people of this planet might have been normally telepathic.
Indirection | Everett B. ColeComplete telepathic blankness would have a high survival value.
Indirection | Everett B. ColeThe table responded poorly; raps were made faintly and as if with reluctance; the telepathic reading of numbers did not succeed.
Mysterious Psychic Forces | Camille FlammarionBut deep behind the telepathic barrier he had erected against her probing mind, he was thinking something else.
The Penal Cluster | Ivar Jorgensen (AKA Randall Garrett)
British Dictionary definitions for telepathy
/ (tɪˈlɛpəθɪ) /
psychol the communication between people of thoughts, feelings, desires, etc, involving mechanisms that cannot be understood in terms of known scientific laws: Also called: thought transference Compare telegnosis, clairvoyance
Origin of telepathy
1Derived forms of telepathy
- telepathic (ˌtɛlɪˈpæθɪk), adjective
- telepathically, adverb
- telepathist, noun
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Cultural definitions for telepathy
[ (tuh-lep-uh-thee) ]
Knowledge conveyed from one individual to another without means of the five senses; mind reading. (See also extrasensory perception, parapsychology, and psychic research.)
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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