telepath

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person believed or imagined to communicate thoughts directly without speech or other physical signals

   In the novel, the telepath can sense fear but cannot read exact words.

2. 2
   verb

   rare: to communicate with someone by supposed telepathy

   The twins joked that they could telepath each answer to one another.

A back-formation from telepathy, coined from Greek tele, 'far off,' + patheia, 'feeling or perception.' Telepathy was introduced in the 1880s for supposed direct mind-to-mind communication; telepath then named a person claimed to possess that ability.

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