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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
Telepathic chess was too much like playing perceptive poker.
From Highways in Hiding by Smith, George Oliver
"Telepathic race, and very immature," he said, and there was worry in his voice.
From Victory by Del Rey, Lester
Telepathic action, or action at a distance, was constantly believed in.
From The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance by Sellars, Roy Wood
The second general class of phenomena in the general category of Voluntary Transmission of Mental Vibrations is that known as "Telepathic Phenomena."
From Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers by Atkinson, William Walker
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