Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to telepathy.

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  • adjective parapsychology Of, relating to, or using telepathy.

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  • adjective communicating without apparent physical signals

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Examples

  • It's telepathic training wheels -- that is, it's a very early stage on the way to the REALLY big next big thing -- brain-to-brain telepathic transfer.

    December 2002 Halley Suitt 2002

  • Many of the so-called telepathic or spiritualistic phenomena may in this way be accounted for, just as I shall explain

    With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914

  • Its purported "telepathic" properties don't necessarily make it an alien artifact; it could just as easily have been a clever psy-ops ploy.

    Posthuman Blues Mac 2007

  • The "Red Room," the symbolic lightning bolt when it's included, Rochester's "telepathic" connection to Jane, and so forth frequently appear uncomfortably comical--especially when, as is usually the case, the filmmaker strips the narrative of its theological underpinnings and turns it into a straightforward twentieth- or twenty-first century romance.

    The Little Professor: 2006

  • The "Red Room," the symbolic lightning bolt when it's included, Rochester's "telepathic" connection to Jane, and so forth frequently appear uncomfortably comical--especially when, as is usually the case, the filmmaker strips the narrative of its theological underpinnings and turns it into a straightforward twentieth- or twenty-first century romance.

    Scattered Musings (occasionally academic) 2006

  • Arkonide brains-and in particular as carefully trained a brain as Khrest's-had no difficulty in resisting any kind of telepathic or hypnotic influence.

    Menace of the Mutant Master Mahr, Kurt 1976

  • Even psychologists by profession seemed for a time to be willing to accept the hypothesis of some "telepathic" transmission of thought from the investigators to the Elberfeld horses.

    Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals Henny Kindermann

  • The other alternative is that of clairvoyance in those present followed by projection by them to the animal of the idea obtained clairvoyantly; or else of a "telepathic" projection of the sense-impression from the animal to the bystanders, with return of the reply from the latter to the former.

    Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals Henny Kindermann

  • Once I saw this antagonism, guided by some kind of telepathic divination, take a form of brutal phantasy.

    Four Years 1897

  • I consider the evidence of entire independence, apart from possible "telepathic" causation, completely water-proof, airtight, incombustible, and unassailable.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

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