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
Sterling and Blair’s world — and the logic of their kitschy twin telepathy — is thrown into total chaos.
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Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 14 Aug. 2020
Psychic powers, including telekinesis and telepathy. Dragon King (1981): Real name unknown.
—cleveland, 29 May 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
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Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 14 Aug. 2020
Psychic powers, including telekinesis and telepathy. Dragon King (1981): Real name unknown.
—cleveland, 29 May 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for telepathy
Noun
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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
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Spiritualism was the popularization of clairvoyance, telepathy and mediums who claimed to communicate with the dead.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
23 Apr. 2026
Noun
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That is one future no amount of foreknowledge or planning can avoid.—
Culture Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
12 May 2026
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The younger daughter had arrived with foreknowledge of the role her older sister had already claimed.—
Catherine Lacey,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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That foresight could not have been more wrong, at least looking at yesterday and today here at Aronimink.—
Alex Kirshner,
New York Times,
16 May 2026
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Bell and Ford earned admiration for their entrepreneurial acumen and foresight.—
Olivier Sylvain,
Fortune,
16 May 2026
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“Telepathy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/telepathy. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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