telepathist

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person believed to receive or transmit thoughts directly without using the known senses

   The telepathist claimed to hear the volunteer's unspoken number.

2. 2
   noun

   a performer who creates the impression of reading another person's thoughts

   The telepathist amazed the audience by identifying a hidden object.

Formed from telepathy and -ist. Telepathy combines Greek tēle, ‘far off,’ with pathos, ‘feeling’ or ‘experience’; the term telepathy was coined in the late nineteenth century, and telepathist followed for a person said to possess the ability.

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