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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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So it was a surprise of the evening that Annie Gosfield's "Refracted Reflections and Telepathic Static," which was written for the Naughtons and ended the program, proved a delight.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2016
Students should practice both sending and receiving Telepathic messages and influences daily.
From Supreme Personality by Croft, Delmer Eugene
Telepathic messages, especially, which form, as we shall see, the special prerogative or characteristic of subliminal communication, seem to be conveyed by vague impression or by inward or externalised picture oftener than by articulate speech.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
"Telepathic race, and very immature," he said, and there was worry in his voice.
From Victory by Del Rey, Lester
Telepathic communication between one mind and another is a commonplace of to-day, an old story.
From The Dweller on the Threshold by Hichens, Robert Smythe
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