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telepathy

[ tuh-lep-uh-thee ]

noun

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


telepathy

/ tɪˈlɛpəθɪ; ˌtɛlɪˈpæθɪk /

noun

  1. 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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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 .)
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Derived Forms

  • ٱˈ貹ٳ󾱲, noun
  • ˌٱˈ貹ٳ󾱳, adverb
  • telepathic, adjective
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ٱ··貹ٳ· [tel-, uh, -, path, -ik], adjective
  • ٱe·貹ٳi·· adverb
  • ԴDzt··貹ٳi adjective
  • ԴDzt··貹ٳi·· adverb
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of telepathy1

First recorded in 1880–85; tele- 1 + -pathy
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of telepathy1

C19: from tele- + Greek patheia feeling, perception: see -pathy
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He once told her that he believed oppressed people had a type of “telepathy” that bonded them all together, she said.

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Lee is fascinated by the plant, specifically the rumblings he’s heard that it can be used for telepathy.

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Lee chases sex, drugs and telepathy, but what he’s chasing isn’t sex itself, but the moments beforehand.

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The actors bonded instantly and had “an almost telepathy by the end of the shoot,” Zetumer said.

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Mork uses telepathy to summon characters’ memories, in the form of scenes from the sitcom’s first five years.

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