telepathy

Definition of telepathynext
as in clairvoyance
a way of communicating thoughts directly from one person's mind to another person's mind without using words or signals

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Recent Examples of telepathy 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 As a result, some of the first clear influences seen in Superman come from such stories', which often featured characters who possessed incredible abilities such as superhuman strength, telepathy, and clairvoyance. Theo Karasavvas, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2020 The next year, Schmeisser marched into a large conference room at Army Research Office headquarters in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, to pitch a research project to investigate synthetic telepathy for soldiers. Adam Piore, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2012 See All Example Sentences for telepathy
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Noun
  • Through her radical honesty and spiritual clairvoyance, Cassidy invites readers to tune to the frequency of their own inner knowing to tap into the cosmic goodness already within them.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 May 2026
  • Spiritualism was the popularization of clairvoyance, telepathy and mediums who claimed to communicate with the dead.
    Rachel Treisman, NPR, 23 Apr. 2026
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  • But if a 12-year-old Spider-Man fan in Dubuque, Iowa, got to watch the film without any foreknowledge, then the gambit was more than worth it.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 23 July 2026
  • That is one future no amount of foreknowledge or planning can avoid.
    Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
Noun
  • The horrors of uncertainty are translated into the language of manageable risk—risk that somebody, somewhere, has the responsibility and foresight to manage.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 July 2026
  • Looking ahead, the sector demands foresight, anticipating future requirements driven by automation and AI to design adaptable spaces.
    James Nelson, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026

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“Telepathy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/telepathy. Accessed 28 Jul. 2026.

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