Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The production or control of motion, especially in inanimate and remote objects, purportedly by the exercise of psychic powers.
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- noun parapsychology The controlled
movement of aninanimate object by the use ofpsychic powers. Abbreviated asPK .
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- noun the power to move something by thinking about it without the application of physical force
Etymologies
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Examples
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For example, the physicists snookered by magicians (e.g. Uri Gellar) into believing in psychokinesis.
Building a Better Idiot, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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1914 American author Henry Holy came up with the term "psychokinesis," although at the time they meant the same thing.
/Film 2009
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And for all of you who think Matthew C is a rigorously rational-minded fellow, on his blog he praises a man for making the following statement: "... the evidence for catastrophic global warming in the near future is far, far less compelling than the evidence for telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis, and even life after death."
A Childish Question About Immigration, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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And for all of you who think Matthew C is a rigorously rational-minded fellow, on his blog he praises a man for making the following statement: "... the evidence for catastrophic global warming in the near future is far, far less compelling than the evidence for telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis, and even life after death."
A Childish Question About Immigration, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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But she can use it as psychokinesis on metal, as well as protection from guns.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Faraway Soul’s Review Forum 2009
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And for all of you who think Matthew C is a rigorously rational-minded fellow, on his blog he praises a man for making the following statement: "... the evidence for catastrophic global warming in the near future is far, far less compelling than the evidence for telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis, and even life after death."
A Childish Question About Immigration, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The Summum aphorisms include “the principle of psychokinesis” and “the principle of correspondence.”
U.S. Supreme Court turns down Summum sect’s demand for religious display 2009
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Popularly called PSI studies, noetic sciences studies the phenomenon of telepathy, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, precognition, ESP and OBE out of body experiences.
Archive 2010-03-01 Alex Tang 2010
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It was only a matter of a few years of computer assisted data-mining before two high school students worked out most of the correlations to character defects, predispositions to substance abuse, sexual orientation, mathematical genius, artistic gifts, psychokinesis and so on - even being accident-prone.
Now, everybody knows the day and the hour: a little healthcare fantasy 2009
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Paranormal has been used to describe the supposed phenomena of extra-sensory perception, including telepathy, and psychokinesis, ghosts, and hauntings.
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