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A the power to move something by thinking about it without the application of physical force
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psychokinesis
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the power to move something by thinking about it without the application of physical force [syn: telekinesis ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Psychokinesis (from Greek ψυχή "mind" and κίνησις "movement"), or telekinesis (from τῆλε "far off" and κίνησις "movement"), is an alleged psychic ability allowing a person to influence a physical system without physical interaction. Psychokinesis experiments ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1914 [Henry Holt, "On the Cosmic Relations"], from psycho- + kinesis . Related: Psychokinetic (1904).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context parapsychology English) The movement of objects by the use of psychic power. Abbreviated as ''PK''.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And so there is psychokinesis , mind acting upon a material object, namely brain cells. ▪ Though we can not say for sure that psychokinesis was involved, we suggest that it might have been.
Usage examples of psychokinesis.
Either of these abilities can coexist in varying degrees of strength with abilities such as clairvoyance, precognition, retrocognition, psychokinesis, or the more specialized Gifts.
A warlock with psychokinesis ability would be an asset of great worth.
In that life, you profaned the Persuader power to support a minimal ability at psychokinesis and Persuade audiences to win fame.
I find psychokinesis easier to accept than the idea that Hammond opened a gate to the looking-glass world.
It was a form of group psychokinesis, something that some people could do under laboratory conditions, and a few species could do in the field.
The wide feathered wings and a touch of psychokinesis enabled it to fly effortlessly, which meant it could attack from all kinds of interesting directions at incredible speeds.
The problem was, his psychokinesis was as much a part of his emotional responses as laughter or tears.
The fourth parapsychological area is psychokinesis, where objects move by themselves.
His psychokinesis, or PK for short, is positively miraculousand frightening.
It was the summer that Ariel started the workshop in Creative Psychokinesis, the first summer that Jason and his father had stayed at Mars Hill.
As the giant troop-carrying gliders soared in, I seized them with psychokinesis, or what-have you, and dunked them one by one in the river.
You gave it to people and they manifested psychic powers: psychokinesis, telepathy, thought projection, teleportation, healing.
It must be some new kind of psychic power — different from the telepathy or psychokinesis or out-of-body travel that your parents study at the Bioenergetics Institute.
He cut the throttle, englished the bike upright with his psychokinesis, got it straightened out, began noodging the brakes, slowed, slowed, and finally stopped.
There's a lot of evidence that both the American and the Soviet governments take the subject a damn sight more seriously than they let on in public and are conducting top-priority studies to understand and isolate a whole range of esoteric phenomena, from levitation and Kirlian photography - a film process that reveals the human aura-to telepathy and teleportation and psychokinesis.