Definition of Telepathy
telepathy (noun) - apparent communication from one mind to another without using sensory perceptions
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How can telepathy be used in a sentence?
"The mind-speech is called telepathy," Illyanov said.
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nullAs if there was some kind of telepathy between young Asian women.
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nullIt's also what scares us when the idea of telepathy is brought up.
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nullThe sailors spun strange yarns over the power we call telepathy now.
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nullAnother possibility is that between the trees a kind of telepathy is involved.
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nullBut sometimes it is reasonable to assume what is known as telepathy, as their link of intercourse.
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nullAnd resistance to telepathy is an automatic human reaction to that sudden feeling of mental intrusion?
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nullDon't try the 'if we all felt like that one' because my canvassee (?) doesn't believe in telepathy .....
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null"By outside influences, I meant influences on the mind, such as telepathy or mind reading of some nature."
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nullSo to you telepathy is a-priori excluded from the realm of things science should investigate, just because.
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nullIt's established that Night Head Genesis will revolve around psychic powers such as telepathy and telekinesis.
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nullWhat is the significance of the case of Clever Hans for the interpretation of so-called telepathy? of muscle reading?
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nullIt is on power of supersensory, or extra-sensory perception that what is known as telepathy and clairvoyance are based.
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nullThe delicious linking of one to one called telepathy is a communication mode that overturns the restrictive barriers of spoken language.
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nullWas it not perhaps a coincidence -- not an answer to his own letter, but one of those extraordinary instances of what is called telepathy?
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nullThe term telepathy is sometimes used, in conformity with its derivation, to mean the direct communication between minds at a great distance.
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nullFar more common than magic was psionics, a new concept for the D&D game, which allowed players to use powers such as telepathy and telekinesis.
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nullAnd although each one of us is interested in different kinds of music today, when we play together, there is some kind of telepathy that is going on.
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nullIn contrast, claims in other fringe realms, such as telepathy and psychokinesis, arecredible only if you ignore a couple or three centuries of established science.
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nullIn his work, Jung developed a capacious model of human psychology that validated psychic experiences such as telepathy, dream foretellings, synchronicities, and so on.
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nullThe fact that journals like Nature and Scientific American aren't interested in reading about the evidence for telepathy is because they are run by dogmatic materialists.
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nullTheir telepathy is supplemented by Rosalind Ross, a three-point threat, dogged defender and the best player in the USA without an anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee.
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nullWith absorbed concentration and advanced yogic training, it is possible to make special use of this system to gain extraphysical and extrasensory powers, such as telepathy and clairvoyance.
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nullThe inventor of the word "telepathy" and the writer who first introduced the work of Freud into Britain, Frederic Myers went on to become one of the founders of the Society for Psychical Research.
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nullI have found that only 1% of Stanford professors believe in telepathy (defined as "communication between minds without using the traditional five senses"), compared with 36% of the general population.
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null"The message sent on the wind" (as the Tibetans call telepathy) had failed to advise Amanda of Purcell's visit, although since moving to the roadhouse she had known that momentous meetings were to transpire there.
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nullI am not certain but that we have lost another power that I suspect the lower animals possess -- something analogous to, or identical with, what we call telepathy -- power to communicate without words, or signs, or signals.
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nullThe distance was too great to see clearly; but perhaps that intercommunication of minds which in later times we call telepathy was the thing which caused his heart to beat with a stronger stroke and fired his spirit with greater courage.
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nullNot that the idea of telepathy itself was alien to him -- after all, he was even more aware than the average citizen that research had been going on in that field for something over a quarter of a century, and that the research was even speeding up.
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nullFor example, quantum entanglement between individuals could account for a range of so-called paranormal effects such as telepathy, and (because quantum physics allows what appears to be backward time effects) premonitions, or precognition - information from the future.
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nullThe author does not discuss some of the research that is beginning to bear fruit in the areas of telepathy, which is now beginning to be accepted as a real phenomenon and demonstrate that minds can communicate at a distance with no possible biological mechanism involved.
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nullThey talk for a long time afterward, about everything and anything, and rather than sever the link they leave a little backchannel running between them; it feels like the kind of telepathy old marrieds have, for each always has a quiet awareness of what the other is thinking.
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nullMany intellectual lights of the day were attracted to the movement: writers Tennyson and John Ruskin, philosopher William James, Nobel Prize-winning physiologist Charles Richet, prime ministers W.E. Gladstone and Arthur Balfour, and especially Frederick Myers, the inventor of the word "telepathy," and Trinity College professor Henry Sidgwick.
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nullThe native fraki, known to science by a pseudo-Latin name and called "Those confounded slugs!" by the People, live in telepathic symbiosis with lemur-like creatures possessed of delicate, many-boned hands -- "telepathy" is a conclusion; it is believed that the slow, monstrous, dominant creatures supply the brains and the lemuroids the manipulation.
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nullThe only class of stories, say the investigators, which appear to be proved beyond the possibility of reasonable doubt, is the class of stories dealing with apparitions at the time of death; and this they explain by supposing a species of telepathy, which is indeed an obscure force, but obviously an existing one, though its conditions and limitations are not clearly understood.
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nullIn this book Myers was unable to get any formula which covered all the phenomena called "spiritual," but in discussing that action of mind upon mind which he has himself called telepathy he completely proved his point, and he worked it out so thoroughly with so many examples, that, save for those who were wilfully blind to the evidence, it took its place henceforth as a scientific fact.
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null"You say," said Doctor Watson, as he rested one arm on the mantel and looked thoughtfully at the open fire, -- "you say there is no proof of the actuality of what is called telepathy or thought-transference, and perhaps you are right, but I have several times in my life had experiences which were very difficult to explain except by some such theory, and if you care to listen I will tell you one of them which I have in mind."
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Tips for Using telepathy in a Sentence
You may have an easier time writing sentences with telepathy if you know what words are likely to come before or after it, or simply what words are often found in the same sentence.
Frequent Predecessors
Words that often come before telepathy in sentences. For example: "of telepathy" or "mental telepathy"
- of
- mental
- and
- in
- by
- that
- as
- for
- to
- the
Frequent Successors
Words that often come after telepathy in sentences. For example: "telepathy ." or "telepathy and"
- .
- and
- is
- or
- in
- as
- to
- between
- from
- was
Associated Words
Words that aren't necessarily predecessors or successors, but are often found in the same sentence.
- precognition
- telekinesis
- clairvoyance
- psychokinesis
- pyrokinesis
- telepathic
- teleportation
- parapsychology
- levitation
- telekinetic
Alternate Definitions
- telepathy (noun) - the direct communication of one mind with another otherwise than in ordinary and recognized ways; the supposed action of one mind on another at a distance without the use of words, looks, gestures, or other material signs; also, the resulting mental state or affection
- telepathy (noun) - the sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation
