telepathy
communication between minds by some means other than sensory perception.
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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
I had read some years ago about this strange therapy called decoded neurofeedback, and this technology made me think of machine-mediated telepathy, or a kind of empathy machine, as it ends up being called in the book.
His power of telepathy and mind control frustrate him because he can’t use them.
Eternals, explained: Who they are and how they fit into the Marvel universe | David Betancourt | November 5, 2021 | Washington PostChasing after a scientific basis for telepathy was a dead end, of course.
How Hans Berger’s quest for telepathy spurred modern brain science | Laura Sanders | July 6, 2021 | Science NewsWanda can control things with her mind—via telekenesis, telepathy, mind control.
Everything You Need to Know Before Watching WandaVision | Eliana Dockterman | January 14, 2021 | TimeOdds against chance in a review of spontaneous telepathy studies have been calculated, Radin says, at “22 billion to 1.”
Knocking on Heaven's Door: True Stories of Unexplained, Uncanny Experiences at the Hour of Death | Patricia Pearson | August 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
His suggestion: “a telepathy shield” that “would consist of a thin metal foil around the brain.”
These phenomena of sight at a distance are classed under the general title of telepathy (τήλε, far, πάθος, sensation).
Urania | Camille FlammarionAnd in that look, Arcot read what even telepathy had hidden heretofore.
Islands of Space | John W CampbellArcot spent the rest of the evening teaching them the Venerian system of telepathy.
Islands of Space | John W CampbellProjective telepathy had only been a crackpot's idea back then.
The Penal Cluster | Ivar Jorgensen (AKA Randall Garrett)To pass the weary time Jones and Hill dabbled in and experimented with hypnotism and telepathy.
Eastern Nights - and Flights | Alan Bott
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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