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Can someone be telepathic?
Since tele- means "distant", you can see how telepathy means basically "feeling communicated from a distance". The word was coined around 1880, when odd psychic phenomena were being widely discussed by people hoping that researchers might find a scientific basis for what they believed they themselves were experiencing. Today, when people talk about extrasensory perception, or ESP, telepathy is usually what they're talking about. In recent years, the notion of memes—ideas that might somehow physically fly from brain to brain so that people all over the world might have the same idea at about the same time without any obvious communication—has been widely discussed. Even though scientists haven't been able to establish the existence of telepathy, about 30% of Americans continue to believe in it.
Examples of telepathy in a Sentence
Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2025
Getting in good positions but lacking the necessary telepathy with his new team mates, meaning his usual big end product figures (10 goals and six assists in 25 Bundesliga league appearances last season) aren’t there.
—Tim Spiers, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
That means Andre was aware of the risk to his health and still tried to use his magnetic telepathy to move the door at Elmira.
—Olivia Singh, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Sterling and Blair’s world — and the logic of their kitschy twin telepathy — is thrown into total chaos.
—Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 14 Aug. 2020
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Cite this Entry
“Telepathy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/telepathy. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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