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Explanation
If you can read your brother's mind, you can describe yourself as telepathic, or able to communicate psychically. If someone is telepathic, she is able to read other people's thoughts or to send messages without using any words or gestures. Telepathic ability hasn't been scientifically proven — most scientists think it's fake, or attribute it to intuition or luck — but there are many people who believe they are telepathic. The adjective telepathic comes from the noun telepathy, which is rooted in the Greek tele, or "far off," and patheia, "suffering or feeling."
Vocabulary lists containing telepathic
"The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury
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Far and Away: Tele
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The Haunting of Hill House
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Example Sentences
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But all that time together made their connection on the court pretty much telepathic.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025
“The core band has been together for over 40 years and we’re kind of telepathic in the way we communicate now, so we’re a lot better than we were back in the day.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2025
But the biggest indication that something has changed in Agatha Harkness is that she is no longer inaccessible to Billy’s telepathic connection.
From Salon • Oct. 31, 2024
The three developed a joyous dynamic, not so much telepathic as alert from moment to moment, so that Horn’s suave but intensely improvised playing always had a plush bed to land in.
From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2024
Perhaps a Gethenian, being singularly complete, feels telepathic speech as a violation of completeness, a breach of integrity hard for him to tolerate.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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