thought transference

noun

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

First recorded in 1880–85

One page of experimental thought-transference work will "carry" more than a hundred of "Phantasms of the Living."

Carefully he looked around in search of a weapon, but the room held nothing but the chair and the thought transference device.

It is perfectly possible that there are instances of thought-transference in cases of somnambulism, epilepsy, trance.

The topic first reported on by the society was thought-transference.

"Thought-transference, Fiddlesticks," we may hear him cry, in imagination.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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