TELEPATHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does telepathy mean? 

• TELEPATHY (noun)
  The noun TELEPATHY has 1 sense:

1. apparent communication from one mind to another without using sensory perceptions

  Familiarity information: TELEPATHY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TELEPATHY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Apparent communication from one mind to another without using sensory perceptions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

telepathy; thought transference

Hypernyms ("telepathy" is a kind of...):

anomalous communication; psychic communication; psychical communication (communication by paranormal means)

Derivation:

telepathic (communicating without apparent physical signals)

telepathist (a magician who seems to discern the thoughts of another person (usually by clever signals from an accomplice))

telepathist (someone with the power of communicating thoughts directly)

telepathize (communicate nonverbally by telepathy)

 Context examples 

"The whole theory of telepathy—" began Summerlee, filling his pipe.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)