telepathy

UK/tɛˈlɛp.ə.θi/US/tɛˈlɛp.ə.θi/

nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #8,623 of 15,258neutral

Telepathy is passing thoughts without any of the senses. Believe in telepathy, test for telepathy, a kind of telepathy.

No experiment has ever demonstrated it under proper controls, and the ones claiming to have done so failed to replicate. The word is used loosely and affectionately for two people who finish each other's sentences, which is familiarity rather than anything else.

Definitions of telepathy

1nountelepathyPassing thoughts without any of the senses.B2+
“In the story, the girl uses telepathy to send messages to her brother across the sea.”

telepathy is a claimed ability.

Where it comes from

From Greek tele, far off, plus pathos, feeling, coined in 1882 by Frederic Myers.

From tele + pathy.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

telepathy in the wild

Buffy goes slowly mad with a case of telepathy, while the Scooby Gang must solve the mystery of who might kill the students of Sunnydale High.
Earshot (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Mainstream scientific consensus rejects dream telepathy as a real phenomenon.
Dream telepathy
The prefix pseudo refers to the fact that quantum pseudo-telepathy does not involve the exchange of information between any parties.
Quantum pseudo-telepathy
Quantum pseudo-telepathy is generally used as a thought experiment to demonstrate the non-local characteristics of quantum mechanics.
Quantum pseudo-telepathy

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