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telepathy

[ tuh-lep-uh-thee ]

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noun

telepathy

/ tɪˈlɛpəθɪ; ˌtɛlɪˈpæθɪk /

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

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

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

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

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

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).

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

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

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

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

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