telepathize

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verb

To establish contact with or to receive via telepathy.

Scrabble 25

Meanings

verbtelepathize (third-person singular simple present telepathizes, present participle telepathizing, simple past and past participle telepathized)

present singular third person telepathizes · participle present telepathizing · participle past telepathized · past telepathized · alternative telepathise

  1. transitiveparapsychologyTo establish contact with or to receive via telepathy.

    Suppose we assume that the percipient does precognitively telepathize the two-seconds-in-the-future psychological state of the agent's brain/mind.

    1978, Paul E. Meehl, “Precognitive Telepathy I: On The Possibility of Distinguishing it Experimentally from Psychokinesis”, in Noûs, volume 12, number 3, page 249
  2. intransitiveparapsychologyTo engage in telepathic communication.

    It does not seem to make sense to speak of learning to telepathize.

    1962, W. I. Matson, “Against Induction and Empiricism,”, in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, volume 62, page 152

Synonyms & antonyms

verbcommunicate nonverbally by telepathy

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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