extrasensory perception

extrasensory perception   n.  ESP.

extrasensory perception (ESP)

Knowledge or perception without the use of any of the five senses. ESP includes clairvoyance (knowledge about some distant object or event, such as an unreported accident), telepathy (reading another's thoughts or sending one's own to another), and precognition (predicting the future). Although many people claim to have extrasensory powers, these powers have yet to be verified by scientific procedures. (See also parapsychology and psychic research.)

Main Entry: extrasensory perception
Function: noun
: perception (as in telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition) that involves awareness of information about eventsexternal to the self not gained through the senses and not deducible from previous experience called also ESP

extrasensory perception n.

Abbr. ESP Perception by means other than through the ordinary senses, as in telepathy, clairvoyance, or precognition.