telepath

plural telepaths

1. literatureA person with telepathic ability, capable of reading the thoughts of others around them. Telepaths also have the ability to project thought.

   Synonyms: mind-reader

present singular third person telepaths · participle present telepathing · participle past telepathed · past telepathed

1. literatureTo communicate by thought; to use telepathy.

   Thanos: "Did you not suspect I could tell you had been telepathing?"

   1973 February, Stan Lee, Iron Man, number 55

   3 more examples

   Jan. 3rd, 1984.—I was in the front sitting-room and dare not go out of the room for the cold; my plants were awfully dry, and hearing E. [her niece] in the kitchen, I telepathed to her to bring me in some water. She at once came with a jug full and asked if I would water the plants.

   1896 October, “A Diary of Telepathic Impressions”, in Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, volume 7, number 132, page 300

   He does not attribute one single experience to what we might term a "ghost" for lack of a better term. Witches, poltergeists, goblins, gremlins, fairies, dwarfs—all of them are real, physical, alive, being either the real thing or the teleported or telepathed image of the real thing.

   1947 June, Raymond A. Palmer, “Observatory”, in Amazing Stories, volume 21, number 6, page 9

   In your mind you have capacities you know / To telepath messages through the vast unknown

   1976, John Woloschuk and Terry Draper, “Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft”, in 3:47 EST, performed by Klaatu