telepathy

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the supposed direct communication of thoughts or feelings between minds without speech, writing, or other ordinary physical signals

   The twins joked that telepathy explained why they so often called each other at the same moment.

Coined in 1882 by the English psychologist Frederic W. H. Myers from tele- ("at a distance") + -pathy, from Greek patheia ("feeling or experience"). Its literal construction, "feeling from afar," was created for the supposed transfer of mental states without ordinary sensory signals.

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