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telepathy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Telepathy \Te*lep"a*thy\, n. [Gr. ? far off + ?, ?, to suffer.] The sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation.
Note: The existence of this ability has not been proven scientifically.-- Tel`e*path"ic, a. -- Te*lep"a*thist, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1882, coined (along with telæsthesia) by English psychologist Frederic Myers (1843-1901), literally "feeling from afar," from tele- + -pathy. The noun telepath is an 1889 back-formation.
Wiktionary
n. (context parapsychology English) The capability to communicate directly by psychic means; the sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation.
WordNet
n. apparent communication from one mind to another without using sensory perceptions [syn: thought transference]
Wikipedia
Telepathy (from the Greek τῆλε, tele meaning "distant" and πάθος, pathos or -patheia meaning " feeling, perception, passion, affliction, experience") is the purported transmission of information from one person to another without using any of our known sensory channels or physical interaction. The term was coined in 1882 by the classical scholar Frederic W. H. Myers, a founder of the Society for Psychical Research, and has remained more popular than the earlier expression thought-transference.
It is generally accepted in the scientific community that there is no replicable evidence that the phenomenon exists, and it is generally considered to be pseudoscience.
Telepathy is a common theme in modern fiction and science fiction, with many extraterrestrials, superheroes, and supervillains having telepathic ability.
Telepathy is a software framework which can be used to make software for interpersonal communications such as instant messaging, Voice over IP or videoconferencing. Telepathy enables the creation of communications applications using components via the D-Bus inter-process communication mechanism. Through this it aims to simplify development of communications applications and promote code reuse within the free software and open source communities by defining a logical boundary between the applications and underlying network protocols.
Telepathy is the purported transmission of information between people without using known sensory channels or physical interaction.
Telepathy may also refer to:
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Telepathy (software), a software framework
- KDE Telepathy, a front-end for Telepathy
- "Telepathy", a song by Men Without Hats from the album No Hats Beyond This Point
- "Telepathy", a song by Eddy Grant from the album Going for Broke
- "Telepathy", a song by Christina Aguilera from the soundtrack of The Get Down
"Telepathy" is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter Christina Aguilera for soundtrack album, The Get Down. The song was written by Sia Furler, Mikkel S. Eriksen and Tor Erik Hermansen and produced by StarGate. It was released by RCA Records on August 12, 2016. The song was characterized as a funky disco that incorporates elements of guitar riffs. The lyrics are about the synergy of a good relationship. "Telepathy" received mostly positive reviews from music critics.
Usage examples of "telepathy".
The words shimmered in her mind, his ability to use telepathy growing stronger with each use.
Rosemary acted as his subject, and she supposedly has astounding abilities in clairvoyance, telepathy and telekinesis.
Its ill vigorous pulsing whisked away her near-hysteria and left her clairvoyance and telepathy raw, sensitive and all-enveloping.
Psi is easier, and the cops will be welcome to use all the psi technique they can dig up: telepathy, clairvoyance, hexing, prekenners.
Without knowing of her approach except by telepathy, the railroad people had bestirred themselves, and she had seen them with her own eyes put the piano-case into a car, and had waited till the train had bumped and jolted off with it towards Mewers Junction.
Thus telepathy was more important than sight, an arrangement many psychics preferred.
Clairvoyance, psychism, telepathy, even the ability to heal or perform miracles automatically comes to such practitioners as they begin to perceive, intuitively and almost unconsciously at first, how the patterns are put together, related and integrated.
You gave it to people and they manifested psychic powers: psychokinesis, telepathy, thought projection, teleportation, healing.
In the ordinary matrix mechanic--and in spite of what the Terrans think, matrix mechanics is just a science, which anybody can learn--this psychokinetic ability is developed independent of telepathy.
If push came to shove, she would vote for a diagnosis of mental telepathy before she agreed with the verdict of psychometry, she decided.
Telepathy was bad enough but somehow psychometry was even more difficult to accept.
Its actual but unaccessible presence in our universe is one of the prime causes for our species elaborating myth and religion, for our stubborn, blind belief in extrasensory powers, in telepathy and precognition, in demons and demigods and resurrection and reincarnation and ghosts and messiahs and so many other categories of not-quite satisfying bullshit.
If we were to encounter an alien race that communicated only by telepathy, and if we were unable to receive those telepathic thoughts, maybe the unreceived psychic energy would produce destructive phenomena of the sort sometimes attributed to malign spirits.
Technical Transmissions Via Mental Telepathy or the Combination of Mediumistic Telepathy Under the Direction of the Confederation of Cosmic Space Beings.
Renowned in occult circles throughout Europe, he had achieved successes in every type of mediumistic endeavor, from levitation to clairvoyance, from telepathy and telekinesis to the various forms of spirit evocation and ectoplasmic materialization.