thought transference

American  

noun

1. transference of thought by extrasensory means from the mind of one individual to another; telepathy.

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thought transference British  

noun

1. psychol another name for telepathy

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Etymology

Origin of thought transference

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

And I haven’t tried thought transference — Hilda’s game — since high school.

From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2020

To the Society for Psychical Research in London, one Mrs. Henry Sedgwick read a paper on thought transference in which she reviewed the results of 259 experiments conducted over a period of years.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dr. Rhine has made thought transference so complicated that it is now impossible to figure out what he has or has not done.

From Time Magazine Archive

Almost as if there had been thought transference.

From Time Magazine Archive

I believe in thought transference now, vibrations in the ether, that sort of junk.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood