telepathy

[ tuh-lep-uh-thee ]

noun

1. communication between minds by some means other than sensory perception.

telepathy

/ tɪˈlɛpəθɪ; ˌtɛlɪˈpæθɪk /

noun

1. See clairvoyance, telegnosis
   psychol the communication between people of thoughts, feelings, desires, etc, involving mechanisms that cannot be understood in terms of known scientific laws Also calledthought transference Compare telegnosis clairvoyance

telepathy

1. Knowledge conveyed from one individual to another without means of the five senses; mind reading. ( See also extrasensory perception , parapsychology , and psychic research .)

Derived Forms

• ˌteleˈpathically, adverb
• telepathic, adjective
• teˈlepathist, noun

Other Words From

• tel·e·path·ic [tel-, uh, -, path, -ik], adjective
• tele·pathi·cal·ly adverb
• nontel·e·pathic adjective
• nontel·e·pathi·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of telepathy¹

First recorded in 1880–85; tele- ¹ + -pathy

Word History and Origins

Origin of telepathy¹

C19: from tele- + Greek patheia feeling, perception: see -pathy

Example Sentences

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.

From Outside Online

His power of telepathy and mind control frustrate him because he can’t use them.

From Washington Post

Chasing after a scientific basis for telepathy was a dead end, of course.

From Science News

Wanda can control things with her mind—via telekenesis, telepathy, mind control.

From Time

Odds against chance in a review of spontaneous telepathy studies have been calculated, Radin says, at “22 billion to 1.”

From The Daily Beast

His suggestion: “a telepathy shield” that “would consist of a thin metal foil around the brain.”

From The Daily Beast

These phenomena of sight at a distance are classed under the general title of Telepathy (τήλε, far, πάθος, sensation).

From Project Gutenberg

And in that look, Arcot read what even telepathy had hidden heretofore.

From Project Gutenberg

Arcot spent the rest of the evening teaching them the Venerian system of telepathy.

From Project Gutenberg

Projective telepathy had only been a crackpot's idea back then.

From Project Gutenberg

To pass the weary time Jones and Hill dabbled in and experimented with hypnotism and telepathy.

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