Meanings
present singular third person mindreads · participle present mindreading
- To read someone's mind.
In contrast, she mindreads with a negative bias--"clearly (sic) he thinks."
1988 June 3, Rose Ann Chasman, “Unacceptable Level of Omissions”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 21 Sep 20202 more examples
A similar point applies to the mindreading of fictional characters, as when one mindreads a character in a novel.
2006, Alvin I. Goldman, Simulating Minds, →ISBN, page 103The PWS frequently mindreads other people as judging them because they stutter.
2011, Bob Bodenhamer, I Have a Voice: How to stop stuttering, →ISBN
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