telepathy

Noun

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

congress commerce communion second-sight contact communication connection answer correspondence dealing conversation insight converse intuition astrology
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Antonyms

fact division literature accident mistake silence
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Hypernyms

psychic communication anomalous communication psychical communication

Phrases with the word

mental telepathy

Examples

A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it. Ian McEwan

Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy. Eric Hobsbawm

Telepathy and intelligence appear to be incompatible from the evolutionary point of view-if you've got one, you don't seem to need the other, and they may even be evolutionary enemies. James Blish

What is writing? Writing is telepathy. Stephen King

If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy. Laurence Housman

You don't know what mental telepathy exists from the human to the animal. Tippi Hedren

Close letter words and terms

telepathological telepathologist telepathology telepatient telepayment telepediatric